Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 5
"It was an old withered stem.
Who acts: tree · What happens: wither, be · To what, where: old withered stem
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 (tree), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stem | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stem | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stem | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stem | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stem | amod |
| 6 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stem | amod |
| 7 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wither in a quote | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | tree | a old withered stem | 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: «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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