Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 57
The grass was green, and beautiful to walk on, and it was regularly cut, and rolled, and swept, and tended.
Who acts: grass · What happens: be, walk on, cut, roll, sweep, tend · To what, where: grass
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 (grass), 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 grass | det |
| 2 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 green | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 green | cop |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beautiful | cc |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 green | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 walk | mark |
| 9 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 beautiful | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 walk | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cut | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cut | aux:pass |
| 15 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 16 cut | advmod |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 green | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rolled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rolled | cc |
| 19 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cut | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 swept | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 swept | cc |
| 22 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rolled | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tended | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tended | cc |
| 25 | tended | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 swept | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 green | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the grass | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk on | to-infinitive | the grass not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut | past · passive | grass | regularly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | roll | past | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | sweep | past | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | tend | past | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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