Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 4
Cabbage and potatoes are the only plants cultivated in the gardens, but out of the hedge there grows a willow tree, and under this willow tree sat a little girl, and she sat with her eyes fixed upon the old oak tree between the two huts.
Who acts: Cabbage, hedge · What happens: be, cultivate, grow, sit, fix · To what, where: only plants, gardens, willow tree, little girl, eyes
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 (Cabbage, hedge), 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 | Cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plants | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 potatoes | cc |
| 3 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cabbage | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 plants | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plants | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plants | amod |
| 7 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 plants | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 gardens | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gardens | det |
| 11 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cultivated | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grows | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 grows | cc |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 hedge | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hedge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hedge | det |
| 17 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grows | nsubj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 hedge | advmod |
| 19 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 plants | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 21 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grows | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sat | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sat | cc |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 tree | det |
| 27 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tree | compound |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sat | obl |
| 29 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grows | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 girl | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 girl | amod |
| 32 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sat | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sat | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sat | cc |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sat | nsubj |
| 36 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 sat | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sat | obl |
| 40 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 eyes | acl |
| 41 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 tree | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 tree | det |
| 43 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 tree | amod |
| 44 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 tree | compound |
| 45 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fixed | obl |
| 46 | between | between | ADP | _ | 49 huts | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 huts | det |
| 48 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 huts | nummod |
| 49 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 tree | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 plants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cabbage and potatoes | the only plants | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cultivate | participle | the only plants not said here | the gardens | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the hedge | a willow tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | a little girl | this willow tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme under tree=Location | ||||
| 5 | sit | past | hedge | with hedge's eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | fix | participle | hedge's eyes not said here | upon the old oak tree between the two huts | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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