Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 43
When she was gone, no one attended to her plantations, and the garden ran to waste.
Who acts: corpse, garden · What happens: be, attend, run, waste · To what, where: one
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 (corpse, garden), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ran | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | parataxis |
| 8 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 one | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 plantations | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plantations | nmod:poss |
| 11 | plantations | plantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attended | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 waste | mark |
| 18 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ran | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | corpse | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attend | participle | no one not said here | to corpse's plantations | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to plantation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | the garden | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | waste | to-infinitive | the garden not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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