Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 167
Within the garden grew large trees, full of sap; but whether they were palm-trees or gigantic water-plants, the prince knew not.
Who acts: Winds, prince · What happens: grow, be, not know · To what, where: large trees, palm trees
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 (Winds, prince), 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 garden | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trees | amod |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 full | punct |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trees | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sap | case |
| 10 | sap | SAP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 knew | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 knew | cc |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 trees | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trees | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 trees | cop |
| 16 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trees | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 palm | punct |
| 18 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 knew | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 plants | cc |
| 20 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 plants | amod |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plants | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 water | punct |
| 23 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 trees | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 knew | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 prince | det |
| 26 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knew | nsubj |
| 27 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 knew | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | large trees | within the garden | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Winds = wind | palm trees or gigantic water plants | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | past | the prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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