Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 71
This pleased me; so I raised a storm, which rooted up old trees, and sent them floating down the river."
Who acts: I, storm, ducks · What happens: raise, root up, send, float · To what, where: storm, old trees, ducks, river
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, storm, ducks), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 pleased | iobj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 raised | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 raised | nsubj |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pleased | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 storm | det |
| 9 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rooted | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 rooted | nsubj |
| 12 | rooted | root | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 storm | acl:relcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rooted | compound:prt |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trees | amod |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rooted | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raised | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | obj |
| 20 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 sent | xcomp |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 floating | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleased | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | I | a storm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | root up | past | a storm | old trees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | past | I not said here | ducks = duck | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | float | gerund | ducks = duck not said here | the river | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down river=Trajectory |
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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