Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 32
This tree required much sunshine, for in continual shade it would become bright green like the other trees, and thus lose its distinctive character.
Who acts: tree, sunshine · What happens: require, become, lose · To what, where: much sunshine, continual shade, distinctive character
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 (tree, sunshine), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 required | nsubj |
| 3 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sunshine | amod |
| 5 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 required | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 become | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 become | mark |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 shade | case |
| 9 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shade | amod |
| 10 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 become | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 become | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 required | conj |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 green | amod |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 become | xcomp |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trees | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 trees | amod |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 green | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lose | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lose | cc |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 23 lose | advmod |
| 23 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 required | parataxis |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 character | nmod:poss |
| 25 | distinctive | distinctive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 character | amod |
| 26 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lose | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | past | this tree | much sunshine | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sunshine=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | become | would | sunshine | in continual shade result; green property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in shade=Result | ||||
| 3 | lose | present | sunshine's distinctive character | thus property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Eventuality |
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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