Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 5
The rose-bush covered the wall and hung out over the water, in which everything was seen as if in a picture, except that it all stood on its head; but when the water was troubled everything got mixed up, and the picture was gone.
Who acts: rose bush, bush, water, picture · What happens: cover, hang out, see, stand, be, mix up · To what, where: wall, water, everything, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rose bush, bush, water, picture), 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 bush | det |
| 2 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bush | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
| 4 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hung | cc |
| 9 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 hung | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hung | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 seen | obl |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hung | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 picture | case |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 picture | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 picture | det |
| 24 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 except | punct |
| 26 | except | except | ADP | _ | 19 seen | advmod |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 except | fixed |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stood | nsubj |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 stood | advmod |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 that | ccomp |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 head | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 mixed | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 mixed | cc |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 troubled | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 water | det |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 troubled | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 troubled | cop |
| 40 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 everything | amod |
| 41 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 43 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 mixed | aux:pass |
| 43 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 covered | conj |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 mixed | compound:prt |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 gone | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 gone | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 picture | det |
| 48 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 gone | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 gone | cop |
| 50 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 mixed | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the rose bush | the wall | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hang out | past | the rose bush not said here | the water | out property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location | |||
| 3 | see | past · passive | everything | as a picture | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as picture=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | bush | bush's head | all property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | |||
| 5 | is | past | the water | troubled property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mix up | past · passive | everything | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is | past | the picture | gone property | 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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