Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 66
In Denmark, in one of those green islands where the foliage of the beech-woods rustles in the wind, and where many Huns' graves may be seen, was another poor boy born.
What happens: see, be, bear · To what, where: foliage, poor boy, Denmark
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: 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 | _ | 2 Denmark | case |
| 2 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 boy | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Denmark | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 islands | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 islands | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 islands | amod |
| 9 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 seen | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foliage | det |
| 12 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rustles | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rustles | det |
| 15 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 woods | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 beech | punct |
| 17 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rustles | compound |
| 18 | rustles | rustle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 foliage | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wind | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wind | det |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rustles | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seen | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 seen | cc |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 seen | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Huns | amod |
| 26 | Huns | hun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 graves | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 Huns | case |
| 28 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 seen | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 seen | aux:pass |
| 31 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 islands | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Denmark | punct |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 boy | cop |
| 34 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 boy | det |
| 35 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 boy | amod |
| 36 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 37 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 boy | acl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | may · passive | the foliage of the woods rustles in the wind | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | another poor boy | Denmark | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | another poor boy not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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