Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 54
Box trees and yew trees stood there trimmed into the form of stars and pyramids, and water sprang from fountains in large grottoes lined with shells.
Who acts: Box trees, water · What happens: stand, trim, spring, line, form · To what, where: form, fountains, large grottoes, stars
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Box trees, water), 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 | Box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trees | compound |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 trees | cc |
| 4 | yew | yew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trees | compound |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trees | conj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | advmod |
| 8 | trimmed | trim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | xcomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 form | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 form | det |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trimmed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 stars | case |
| 13 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 form | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pyramids | cc |
| 15 | pyramids | pyramid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stars | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sprang | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sprang | cc |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprang | nsubj |
| 19 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 fountains | case |
| 21 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sprang | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 grottoes | case |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grottoes | amod |
| 24 | grottoes | grotto | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fountains | nmod |
| 25 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 grottoes | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 shells | case |
| 27 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lined | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Box trees and yew trees | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | trim | participle | Box trees and yew trees not said here | the form of stars and pyramids | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spring | past | water | fountains in large grottoes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from fountain=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | line | participle | large grottoes not said here | with shells | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with shell=Theme | ||||
| 5 | form | stars and pyramids | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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