Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 8
Once there was also a field of buckwheat, and this field was exactly opposite to old willow-tree.
Who acts: field · What happens: be · To what, where: field
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 (field), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 6 field | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 field | cop |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 field | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 buckwheat | case |
| 8 | buckwheat | buckwheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 field | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 opposite | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 opposite | cc |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opposite | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 opposite | cop |
| 14 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 15 opposite | advmod |
| 15 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 field | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tree | amod |
| 18 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 willow | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opposite | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 field | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a field | of buckwheat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this field | to old willow tree; exactly, opposite property | 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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