Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 4
Before, every tree, every neighbouring bush, the old farmhouse with the holes in the roof and the swallows' nest, and especially the great rose-bush full of flowers, had been reflected in it.
What happens: neighbour, reflect · To what, where: bush
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reflected | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bush | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 bush | det |
| 7 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bush | amod |
| 8 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 farmhouse | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmhouse | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 farmhouse | amod |
| 12 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 holes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 holes | det |
| 15 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 farmhouse | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 roof | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 holes | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 nest | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 swallows | det |
| 21 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 nest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 swallows | case |
| 23 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roof | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bush | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bush | cc |
| 26 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 31 bush | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bush | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 bush | amod |
| 29 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bush | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 rose | punct |
| 31 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | parataxis |
| 32 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 bush | amod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 flowers | case |
| 34 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 full | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 reflected | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 reflected | aux:pass |
| 38 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 reflected | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | reflect | past · perfect · passive | bush | before every tree and every neighbouring bush and the old farmhouse with the holes in the roof and the swallows's nest | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V» |
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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