Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 44
A glance out of the window, and the acacia tree reminded of the days of childhood.
Who acts: acacia tree · What happens: remind · To what, where: glance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acacia tree), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 glance | det |
| 2 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glance | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reminded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reminded | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reminded | nsubj |
| 12 | reminded | remind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 glance | acl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reminded | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 childhood | case |
| 17 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 days | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 glance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | participle | the acacia tree | a glance out the window not said here | day | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent glance=Recipient |
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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