Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 146
Then we got into a garden in which grew red cabbage; oh, how nice it was, I cannot think of anything more delicious."
Who acts: we, garden, cabbage, I · What happens: get, grow, be, not think · To what, where: garden, red cabbage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, garden, cabbage, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 garden | acl:relcl |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cabbage | amod |
| 11 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 nice | punct |
| 13 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 nice | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nice | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 nice | advmod |
| 16 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 nice | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 nice | cop |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 think | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 think | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 think | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 think | advmod |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 anything | case |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 think | obl |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 delicious | advmod |
| 27 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 think | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | we | a garden | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | |||
| 2 | grow | past | a garden | red cabbage | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cabbage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | cabbage | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not think speech: other | can | I | of anything | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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