Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 45
I blew gently, to clear away the mist, and then I saw a little hut, which had been built from the wood of a wreck, and was covered with the skins of the walrus, the fleshy side outwards; it looked green and red, and on the roof sat a growling bear.
Who acts: I, hut · What happens: blow, clear away, see, build, cover, look · To what, where: mist, little hut, wood, growling bear, roof
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 (I, hut), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 blew | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clear | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 clear | mark |
| 6 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 blew | advcl |
| 7 | away | away | ADP | _ | 6 clear | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mist | det |
| 9 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clear | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 saw | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hut | amod |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 built | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 built | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 built | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 built | aux:pass |
| 22 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hut | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 built | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wreck | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wreck | det |
| 28 | wreck | wreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wood | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 covered | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 covered | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 covered | aux:pass |
| 32 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 saw | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 skins | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 skins | det |
| 35 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 covered | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 walrus | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 walrus | det |
| 38 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 skins | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 side | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 side | det |
| 41 | fleshy | fleshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 side | amod |
| 42 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 walrus | conj |
| 43 | outwards | outwards | ADV | _ | 42 side | advmod |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 looked | punct |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 looked | nsubj |
| 46 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | parataxis |
| 47 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 looked | xcomp |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 red | cc |
| 49 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 green | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 sat | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 sat | cc |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 54 roof | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 roof | det |
| 54 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 sat | obl |
| 55 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 looked | conj |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 bear | det |
| 57 | growling | growling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 bear | amod |
| 58 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 sat | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | I | gently property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | clear away | to-infinitive | I not said here | the mist | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mist=Source | ||||
| 3 | see | past | I | a little hut | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | build | past · perfect · passive | a little hut | the wood of a wreck | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from wood=Material | ||||
| 5 | cover | past · passive | I not said here | with the skins of the walrus and the fleshy side | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with skin=Theme | ||||
| 6 | look | past | hut | green property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | sit | past | hut not said here | a growling bear | the roof | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme on roof=Location |
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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