Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 3
It was late in the autumn; the vine-leaves still hung upon the branches of the vines, but they were already tinted with red and gold; heavy showers fell on the surrounding country, and the cold autumn wind blew sharp and strong.
Who acts: town, vine leaves, heavy showers, cold autumn wind · What happens: be, hang, tint, fall, blow · To what, where: branches, leaves, surrounding country
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 (town, vine leaves, heavy showers, cold autumn wind), 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 | 3 late | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | cop |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 autumn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 autumn | det |
| 6 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 late | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leaves | det |
| 9 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 vine | punct |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hung | nsubj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 hung | advmod |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 branches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branches | det |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hung | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 vines | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vines | det |
| 19 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 branches | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tinted | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 tinted | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 tinted | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tinted | aux:pass |
| 24 | already | already | ADV | _ | 25 tinted | advmod |
| 25 | tinted | tint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hung | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 red | case |
| 27 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tinted | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gold | cc |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 red | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 fell | punct |
| 31 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 showers | amod |
| 32 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fell | nsubj |
| 33 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | parataxis |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 country | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 country | det |
| 36 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 country | compound |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fell | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 blew | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 blew | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 wind | det |
| 41 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 wind | amod |
| 42 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 wind | compound |
| 43 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 blew | nsubj |
| 44 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 fell | conj |
| 45 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 blew | xcomp |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 strong | cc |
| 47 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 sharp | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | town | autumn | late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hang | past | the vine leaves | the branches of the vines | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon branch=Location | |||
| 3 | tint | past · passive | leaves = leaf | with red and gold | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | heavy showers | the surrounding country | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on country=Location | ||||
| 5 | blow | past | the cold autumn wind | sharp property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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