Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 157
The great oaks formed an outline to the scene which he so well remembered in his childhood.
Who acts: great oaks · What happens: form, remember · To what, where: outline, scene, childhood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great oaks), 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 oaks | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 oaks | amod |
| 3 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 formed | nsubj |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 outline | det |
| 6 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 scene | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 scene | det |
| 9 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 remembered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 remembered | nsubj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 remembered | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 remembered | advmod |
| 14 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 scene | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 childhood | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 17 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remembered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | the great oaks | a outline | the scene | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent outline=Theme to scene=Recipient | |||
| 2 | remember | participle · passive | the scene | castle's childhood | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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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