Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 1

In the country of Wurtemburg, in Germany, where the acacias grow by the public road, where the apple-trees and the pear-trees in autumn bend to the earth with the weight of the precious fruit, lies the little town of Marbach.

Who acts: acacias · What happens: grow, lie · To what, where: country, little town

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acacias), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 country	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grow	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Wurtemburg	case
5	Wurtemburg	Wurtemburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 country	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 country	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Germany	case
8	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 grow	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grow	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 grow	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 acacias	det
12	acacias	acacia	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grow	nsubj
13	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 road	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 road	det
16	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 road	amod
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grow	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 trees	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 trees	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trees	det
21	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trees	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 apple	punct
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 road	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 trees	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 trees	det
26	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trees	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 pear	punct
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 trees	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 bend	case
30	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bend	compound
31	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trees	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 earth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 earth	det
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bend	nmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 weight	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 weight	det
37	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 earth	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 fruit	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fruit	det
40	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fruit	amod
41	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 weight	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lies	punct
43	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bend	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 town	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 town	amod
46	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lies	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 Marbach	case
48	Marbach	Marbach	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 town	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the acacias			the country of Wurtemburg		in Germany; by the public road and the apple trees in autumn bend to the earth with the weight of the precious fruit and the pear trees	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
2	lie	present	the acacias not said here	the little town of Marbach					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=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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