Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 31
It was called the blood-beech--a kind of negro growing among the other trees, so dark brown were the leaves.
Who acts: negro, blood beech · What happens: call, grow, be · To what, where: garden, other trees, leaves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (negro, blood beech), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beech | det |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beech | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 blood | punct |
| 7 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leaves | nsubj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 kind | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kind | det |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beech | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 negro | case |
| 12 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kind | nmod |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 negro | acl |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trees | amod |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 growing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brown | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 dark | advmod |
| 20 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 brown | amod |
| 21 | brown | brown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beech | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 leaves | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 leaves | det |
| 24 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | garden | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | negro not said here | the other trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the blood beech and dark brown | the leaves | 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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