Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 9
The summit of the tree was a wide-spreading garden, and in the midst of it, where the green boughs formed a kind of hill, stood a castle of crystal, with a view from it towards every quarter of heaven.
Who acts: summit, green boughs · What happens: spread, be, form, stand · To what, where: spreading garden, kind, castle
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, green boughs), 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 | 11 garden | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 summit | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 garden | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spreading | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wide | punct |
| 10 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 garden | amod |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 midst | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 midst | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 midst | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 midst | det |
| 16 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 garden | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 midst | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 formed | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 formed | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boughs | det |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 boughs | amod |
| 23 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 formed | nsubj |
| 24 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 midst | acl:relcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 kind | det |
| 26 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 formed | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hill | case |
| 28 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kind | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stood | punct |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 formed | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 castle | det |
| 32 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 crystal | case |
| 34 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 castle | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 view | punct |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 view | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 view | det |
| 38 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | obl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 view | nmod |
| 41 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 43 quarter | case |
| 42 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 quarter | det |
| 43 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 heaven | case |
| 45 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 quarter | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 garden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the summit of the tree | a spreading garden | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | past | the green boughs | a kind of hill | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the green boughs not said here | a castle of crystal | with a view from summit; towards every quarter of heaven | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
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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