Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 134
The green board was the name he gave to the green fields and meadows.
Who acts: green board, little · What happens: be, give · To what, where: name, green fields
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green board, little), 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 board | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 board | amod |
| 3 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fields | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fields | det |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fields | amod |
| 12 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meadows | cc |
| 14 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fields | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the green board | the name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | little | the name not said here | the green fields and meadows | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to field=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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