Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 6
Indeed, everything in the emperor's garden was remarkable, and it extended so far that the gardener himself did not know where it ended.
Who acts: everything, garden, gardener · What happens: be, extend, not know, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, garden, gardener), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 remarkable | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 remarkable | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 emperor | det |
| 6 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 emperor | case |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 everything | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 remarkable | cop |
| 10 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 extended | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 extended | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 extended | nsubj |
| 14 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 remarkable | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 extended | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 know | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gardener | det |
| 19 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | nsubj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 19 gardener | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 extended | advcl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 ended | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ended | nsubj |
| 26 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | indeed, remarkable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | extend | past | garden | far property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | the gardener gardener | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | end | past | garden | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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