Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 50
So they went into Death's great greenhouse, where flowers and trees grew strangely into one another.
Who acts: waters, flowers · What happens: go, grow · To what, where: great greenhouse
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters, flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 greenhouse | case |
| 5 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 greenhouse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Death | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 greenhouse | amod |
| 8 | greenhouse | greenhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 grew | advmod |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trees | cc |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flowers | conj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 14 grew | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 grew | obl |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | fixed |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | waters = water | Death's great greenhouse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into greenhouse=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | flowers and trees | into one result; strangely property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into one=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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