Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 1

There were once five peas in one shell, they were green, the shell was green, and so they believed that the whole world must be green also, which was a very natural conclusion.

Who acts: peas, shell, whole world · What happens: be, believe · To what, where: natural conclusion

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas, shell, whole world), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 green	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 five	advmod
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 peas	nummod
5	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 shell	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 shell	nummod
8	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 peas	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 green	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 green	cop
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 green	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shell	det
15	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 green	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 green	cop
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 green	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 believed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 believed	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 believed	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 believed	nsubj
22	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 green	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 green	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 world	amod
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 green	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 green	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 green	cop
29	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 believed	ccomp
30	also	also	ADV	_	37 conclusion	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 also	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 conclusion	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 conclusion	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 conclusion	det
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 natural	advmod
36	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 conclusion	amod
37	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 green	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 green	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	peas = pea		green property	tree rules
2	is	past	the shell		green property	tree rules
3	believe	past	peas = pea			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	must	the whole world		green property	tree rules
5	is a	past		a natural conclusion		tree rules

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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