Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 7
One day he was walking alone in the wood, which was his greatest pleasure, when evening came on.
Who acts: garden, wood, evening · What happens: walk, be, come on · To what, where: wood, greatest pleasure
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 (garden, wood, evening), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 walking | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleasure | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 pleasure | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleasure | cop |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 14 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 pleasure | amod |
| 15 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wood | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleasure | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | garden | the wood and garden's greatest pleasure | day | alone property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the wood and garden's greatest pleasure | garden's greatest pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come on | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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