Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 86
The other elephant, which contained a beautiful geranium, they called their flower garden.
Who acts: other elephant · What happens: contain, call · To what, where: beautiful geranium, flower garden · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (other elephant), 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 | 3 elephant | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 elephant | amod |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 contained | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 contained | nsubj |
| 6 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 elephant | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 geranium | det |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 geranium | amod |
| 9 | geranium | geranium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 contained | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 elephant | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 garden | nmod:poss |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 garden | compound |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | past | the other elephant | a beautiful geranium | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot geranium=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the other elephant | elephants's flower garden | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent garden=Recipient |
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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