Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 3
Close by it was a wilderness of trees and thicket; here the garden had been, and had stretched out to a great lake, which was now moorland.
Who acts: building, great lake · What happens: be, stretch out · To what, where: garden, moorland
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 (building, great lake), 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 wilderness | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 wilderness | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wilderness | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wilderness | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wilderness | det |
| 6 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wilderness | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thicket | cc |
| 10 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trees | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stretched | punct |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 stretched | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stretched | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 stretched | aux:pass |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stretched | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stretched | cc |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stretched | aux |
| 20 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wilderness | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 stretched | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 lake | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lake | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lake | amod |
| 25 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretched | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 moorland | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 moorland | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 moorland | cop |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 moorland | advmod |
| 30 | moorland | moorland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lake | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wilderness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | building | by a wilderness; of trees and thicket; close property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | past · perfect · passive | the garden | here | to a great lake and moorland result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to lake=Result | |||
| 3 | is a | past | a great lake and moorland | moorland | now | 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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