Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 3
The wild fig tree grows in the clefts of the wall, and covers the nakedness thereof with its broad grey-green leaves; trampling among heaps of rubbish, the ass treads upon green laurels, and rejoices over the rank thistles.
Who acts: wild fig tree, trampling · What happens: grow, cover, tread, rejoice · To what, where: clefts, nakedness, green laurels, rank thistles
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild fig tree, trampling), 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 | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 3 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 clefts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clefts | det |
| 8 | clefts | cleft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grows | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clefts | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 covers | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 covers | cc |
| 14 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grows | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nakedness | det |
| 16 | nakedness | nakedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covers | obj |
| 17 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 14 covers | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 leaves | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 20 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 leaves | amod |
| 21 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 green | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 grey | punct |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 leaves | amod |
| 24 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 covers | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 trampling | punct |
| 26 | trampling | trampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 treads | nsubj |
| 27 | among | among | ADP | _ | 28 heaps | case |
| 28 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 trampling | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 rubbish | case |
| 30 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heaps | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 treads | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ass | det |
| 33 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 treads | nsubj |
| 34 | treads | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grows | parataxis |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 37 laurels | case |
| 36 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 laurels | amod |
| 37 | laurels | laurel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 treads | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rejoices | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 rejoices | cc |
| 40 | rejoices | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grows | conj |
| 41 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 thistles | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 thistles | det |
| 43 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 thistles | compound |
| 44 | thistles | thistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 rejoices | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the wild fig tree | the clefts of the wall | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cleft=Location | ||||
| 2 | cover | present | the wild fig tree not said here | the nakedness | with tree's broad green leaves; thereof property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent nakedness=Destination with leaf=Theme | |||
| 3 | tread | present | trampling among heaps of rubbish | green laurels | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon laurel=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | rejoice | present | the wild fig tree not said here | the rank thistles | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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