Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 4
The trunk has been split, and out of the crevice grass and brambles grow.
What happens: split, grow · To what, where: trunk, crevice grass
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trunk | det |
| 2 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 split | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 split | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 split | aux:pass |
| 5 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grow | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grow | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 grass | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grass | det |
| 11 | crevice | crevice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grass | compound |
| 12 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grow | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brambles | cc |
| 14 | brambles | bramble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grass | conj |
| 15 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 split | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 split | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | split | present · perfect · passive | the trunk | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | the crevice grass and brambles | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out grass=Location |
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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