Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 7
It happened that where the Prince's father lay buried, there grew a rose tree--a most beautiful rose tree, which blossomed only once in every five years, and even then bore only one flower, but that was a rose!
Who acts: It, father, beautiful rose tree, that · What happens: happen, lie, bury, grow, blossom, bear · To what, where: rose tree, one flower, rose
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, father, beautiful rose tree, that), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 grew | mark |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 lay | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grew | advcl |
| 10 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lay | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 grew | expl |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 15 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | obj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 tree | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tree | amod |
| 21 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 blossomed | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 blossomed | nsubj |
| 25 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tree | conj |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 once | advmod |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 blossomed | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 years | case |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 years | det |
| 30 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 years | nummod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 blossomed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bore | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bore | cc |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 then | advmod |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 bore | advmod |
| 36 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 one | advmod |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 flower | nummod |
| 39 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bore | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 rose | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 rose | cc |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 rose | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 rose | cop |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 rose | det |
| 45 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bore | obl |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | the Prince's father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bury | participle | the Prince's father not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | a rose tree a beautiful rose tree | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 5 | blossom | past | a beautiful rose tree | year | once property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 6 | bear | past | one flower | then | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | that | a rose | tree rules |
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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