Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 2
The summit of this tree spread itself for miles like an entire forest, each of its smaller branches forming a complete tree.
Who acts: summit, smaller branches · What happens: spread, form · To what, where: Tree, complete tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summit, smaller branches), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 summit | det |
| 2 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 summit | nmod |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 spread | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 miles | case |
| 9 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spread | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 12 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forest | amod |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 miles | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 each | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 forest | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 branches | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 branches | nmod:poss |
| 18 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 branches | amod |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 each | nmod |
| 20 | forming | form | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 branches | acl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 22 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tree | amod |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forming | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the summit of this tree | Tree | for miles like a entire forest each | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Theme | |||
| 2 | form | gerund | Tree's smaller branches not said here | a complete tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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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