Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 157
Close to the sparrows the roses were blooming; they were reflected in the water, and the charred beams leaned against the overhanging chimney. "
Who acts: roses, charred beams · What happens: bloom, reflect, char, learn, overhang · To what, where: roses, water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, charred beams), 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 blooming | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 sparrows | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sparrows | det |
| 4 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Close | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roses | det |
| 6 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blooming | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blooming | aux |
| 8 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 reflected | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reflected | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reflected | aux:pass |
| 12 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 blooming | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reflected | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leaned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leaned | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beams | det |
| 19 | charred | char | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 beams | amod |
| 20 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 leaned | nsubj |
| 21 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reflected | conj |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 chimney | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chimney | det |
| 24 | overhanging | overhang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 chimney | amod |
| 25 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leaned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 blooming | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 blooming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | past · progressive | the roses | close property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reflect | past · passive | roses = rose | the water | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | char | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | learn | past | the charred beams | against the overhanging chimney | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | overhang | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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