Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 93
The apple-tree, which the two children had planted, grew year after year, till it became so large that it had to be transplanted into the garden, where the dew fell and the sun shone warmly.
Who acts: apple tree, chapel, dew, sun · What happens: plant, grow, become, have, transplant, fall · To what, where: two children, garden
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, chapel, dew, sun), 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 tree | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 apple | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 planted | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 planted | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 children | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 children | nummod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 planted | aux |
| 11 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tree | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grew | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 became | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 became | nsubj |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grew | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 large | advmod |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 had | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 large | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 transplanted | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 transplanted | aux:pass |
| 28 | transplanted | transplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 had | xcomp |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 garden | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 garden | det |
| 31 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 transplanted | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fell | punct |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 fell | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dew | det |
| 35 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fell | nsubj |
| 36 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 transplanted | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 shone | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sun | det |
| 39 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 shone | nsubj |
| 40 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fell | conj |
| 41 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 40 shone | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | past · perfect · passive | the two children | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the apple tree | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | chapel | large property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | chapel | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | transplant | to-infinitive · passive | chapel not said here | the garden | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | the dew | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | shine | past | the sun | warmly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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