Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 56
That was the French part of the garden; and from this part the visitor came into what appeared like the green, fresh forest, where the trees might grow as they chose, and accordingly they were great and glorious.
Who acts: That, visitor, trees · What happens: be, come, appear, grow, choose · To what, where: French part, part
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 (That, visitor, trees), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 part | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 part | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 part | det |
| 4 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 part | amod |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 part | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 part | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 part | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 part | det |
| 13 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 visitor | det |
| 15 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 part | acl:relcl |
| 17 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 19 appeared | mark |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 appeared | nsubj |
| 19 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | advcl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 forest | det |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 forest | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 green | punct |
| 24 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 forest | amod |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appeared | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grow | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 grow | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trees | det |
| 29 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 grow | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 grow | aux |
| 31 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 forest | parataxis |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 chose | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 chose | nsubj |
| 34 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 grow | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 great | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 great | cc |
| 37 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 40 great | advmod |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 great | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 great | cop |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 chose | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 glorious | cc |
| 42 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 great | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the French part and this part | of the garden | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | the visitor | this part not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | like the green fresh forest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grow | might | the trees | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | choose | past | trees = tree | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | trees = tree | accordingly, great property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | trees = tree not said here | 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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