Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 85
In one grew some very fine chives or leeks; this was the kitchen garden.
Who acts: one, this · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: fine chives, kitchen garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, this), 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 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 chives | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 fine | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chives | amod |
| 7 | chives | chive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 leeks | cc |
| 9 | leeks | leek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 chives | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 garden | punct |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 garden | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 garden | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 14 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 garden | compound |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | one | some fine chives or leeks | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chive=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the kitchen garden | tree rules |
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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