Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 28
She wanted to go to the hounds, and not to her mother, who went down into the garden, to the lake where the water-lily bloomed, and the heads of bulrushes nodded amid the reeds; and she looked at all this beauty and freshness. "
Who acts: lady, water lily, heads · What happens: want, go, go down, bloom, nod, amid · To what, where: garden, reeds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, water lily, heads), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hounds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hounds | det |
| 7 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 mother | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanted | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 garden | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 garden | det |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lake | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 lake | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lake | det |
| 24 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 bloomed | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lily | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lily | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 water | punct |
| 29 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bloomed | nsubj |
| 30 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 lake | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 amid | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 amid | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 heads | det |
| 34 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 amid | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 bulrushes | case |
| 36 | bulrushes | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 heads | nmod |
| 37 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 amid | amod |
| 38 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 reeds | det |
| 40 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 amid | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 looked | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 looked | cc |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 looked | nsubj |
| 44 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanted | conj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 beauty | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 beauty | det:predet |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 beauty | det |
| 48 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 looked | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 freshness | cc |
| 50 | freshness | freshness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 beauty | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | lady | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | lady not said here | to the hounds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hound=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go down | past | the garden | to the lake; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | bloom | participle | the water lily | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | nod | participle | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | amid | the heads of bulrushes | the reeds | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | look | past | lady | at all beauty and freshness | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beauty=Theme |
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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