Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 186
It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, from which Adam and Eve had plucked and eaten the forbidden fruit, and from each leaf trickled a bright red dewdrop, as if the tree were weeping tears of blood for their sin. "
Who acts: tree · What happens: be, pluck, eat, forbid, trickle, weep · To what, where: tree, Adam, forbidden fruit, bright red dewdrop, leaf, tears
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 (tree), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tree | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 knowledge | case |
| 6 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 good | case |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knowledge | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 evil | cc |
| 10 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 good | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 plucked | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 plucked | obl |
| 14 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 plucked | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Eve | cc |
| 16 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Adam | conj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 plucked | aux |
| 18 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tree | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eaten | cc |
| 20 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 plucked | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fruit | det |
| 22 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 fruit | amod |
| 23 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eaten | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 trickled | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trickled | cc |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 leaf | case |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 leaf | det |
| 28 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trickled | obl |
| 29 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 plucked | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 dewdrop | det |
| 31 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 dewdrop | amod |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 dewdrop | amod |
| 33 | dewdrop | dewdrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trickled | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 weeping | punct |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 weeping | mark |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 weeping | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 weeping | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 weeping | aux |
| 40 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 trickled | advcl |
| 41 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 weeping | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 blood | case |
| 43 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tears | nmod |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 sin | case |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 sin | nmod:poss |
| 46 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 weeping | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree | the tree | of knowledge of good | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pluck | past · perfect · passive | Adam and Eve | the tree | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source | ||||
| 3 | eat | participle | the forbidden fruit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | |||||
| 4 | forbid | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 5 | trickle | past | a bright red dewdrop | each leaf | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent dewdrop=Theme from leaf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | weep | past · progressive | the tree | tears of blood | for tears's sin | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
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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