Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 64
In his hand he carried a club, cut from a mahogany tree in the American forests, not a trifle to carry.
Who acts: Zephyr · What happens: carry, cut · To what, where: club, hand, mahogany tree
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 (Zephyr), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8872): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 club | det |
| 7 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 club | acl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | mahogany | mahogany | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 forests | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forests | det |
| 16 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 forests | amod |
| 17 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tree | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trifle | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 trifle | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 trifle | det |
| 21 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 club | appos |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 carry | mark |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 trifle | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Zephyr | a club | Zephyr's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent club=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | cut | participle | a club not said here | a mahogany tree in the American forests | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | Zephyr not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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