Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 5
The tree bends for-ward slightly, and the branches hang quite down to the ground just like green hair.
Who acts: tree, branches · What happens: bend, hang
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: who acts (tree, branches), 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 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bends | nsubj |
| 3 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ward | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 for | punct |
| 6 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bends | obl |
| 7 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 3 bends | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hang | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hang | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 branches | det |
| 11 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hang | nsubj |
| 12 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bends | conj |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 down | advmod |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 hang | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hang | obl |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 hair | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 hair | case |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hair | amod |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hang | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | the tree | for ward; slightly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | the branches | to the ground; like green hair; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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