Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 76

It was a huge desolate plain; some wild bushes stood up here and there, while across the field flowed a broad canal or river.

Who acts: It, wild bushes · What happens: be, desolate, stand up, flow · To what, where: broad canal, field

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, wild bushes), 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	4 huge	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 huge	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 huge	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 huge	ccomp
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 desolate	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bushes	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bushes	amod
10	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 huge	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 stood	compound:prt
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stood	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 there	cc
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 here	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flowed	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 flowed	mark
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 field	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 field	det
20	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flowed	obl
21	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 canal	det
23	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 canal	amod
24	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flowed	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 river	cc
26	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 canal	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 huge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			huge property	tree rules
2	desolate	infinitive				plain property	tree rules
3	stand up	past	some wild bushes		here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	flow	past	some wild bushes not said here	a broad canal or river	the field		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location canal=Theme

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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