Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 207
That apple-tree, planted in love, now appears before me in heavenly beauty."
Who acts: apple tree · What happens: plant, appear · To what, where: apple tree, love, heavenly beauty
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 (apple tree), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 apple | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appears | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 planted | punct |
| 6 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tree | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 love | case |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 planted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 appears | advmod |
| 11 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 appears | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beauty | amod |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appears | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 appears | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | participle | that apple tree not said here | love | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in love=Destination | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | that apple tree | heavenly beauty | before me; now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location |
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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