Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 18
The luxuriant herbage is trampled down, crushed by the feet of elephants.
What happens: trample down, crush · To what, where: luxuriant herbage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 herbage | det |
| 2 | luxuriant | luxuriant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 herbage | amod |
| 3 | herbage | herbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trampled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trampled | aux:pass |
| 5 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 trampled | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crushed | punct |
| 8 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 trampled | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 feet | det |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 crushed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 elephants | case |
| 13 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feet | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trampled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trample down | present · passive | the luxuriant herbage | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | crush | participle | by the feet of elephants | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-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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