Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 201
It was the tree which he and Molly had planted together.
Who acts: spreading · What happens: be, plant · To what, where: tree, fragrance
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 (spreading), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tree | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 planted | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Molly | cc |
| 8 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 he | conj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 planted | aux |
| 10 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tree | acl:relcl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 planted | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | spreading | the tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plant | past · perfect · passive | fragrance | together property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination |
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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