Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 2
The doors are low, and some of the windows are placed quite high, and others close to the ground; and whitethorn and barberry bushes grow around them.
Who acts: doors, others, whitethorn bushes · What happens: be, place, close, grow · To what, where: some, ground
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, others, whitethorn 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doors | det |
| 2 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 low | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 low | cop |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placed | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 windows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 windows | det |
| 10 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 some | nmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | aux:pass |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 low | parataxis |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 high | advmod |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 placed | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 close | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 close | cc |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 close | nsubj |
| 18 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 close | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 grow | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 grow | cc |
| 24 | whitethorn | whitethorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bushes | compound |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 barberry | cc |
| 26 | barberry | barberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 whitethorn | conj |
| 27 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 grow | nsubj |
| 28 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 low | parataxis |
| 29 | around | around | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 grow | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 low | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the doors | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place | present · passive | some | high property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | close | present | others | the ground | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ground=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | whitethorn bushes | around others = other | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Location |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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