Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 77
In the rooms heavy black cobwebs hung down, covered with dust; in the garden everything grew just as it would; hops and climbing plants ran like a net between the trees and bushes, and the hemlock and nettle grew larger and stronger.
Who acts: everything, climbing, hemlock · What happens: hang down, cover, grow, climb, run · To what, where: heavy black cobwebs, rooms, plants
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 (everything, climbing, hemlock), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 rooms | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rooms | det |
| 3 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hung | obl |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cobwebs | amod |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cobwebs | amod |
| 6 | cobwebs | cobweb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 hung | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 covered | punct |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hung | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 dust | case |
| 12 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 covered | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 grew | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 everything | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 everything | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 everything | compound |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hung | conj |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 would | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 would | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 would | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 grew | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 hops | punct |
| 24 | hops | hop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hung | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ran | cc |
| 26 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 ran | csubj |
| 27 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 climbing | obj |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hung | conj |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 net | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 net | det |
| 31 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ran | obl |
| 32 | between | between | ADP | _ | 34 trees | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 trees | det |
| 34 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 net | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bushes | cc |
| 36 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 trees | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 grew | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 grew | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hemlock | det |
| 40 | hemlock | hemlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grew | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 nettle | cc |
| 42 | nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hemlock | conj |
| 43 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hung | conj |
| 44 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 grew | xcomp |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 stronger | cc |
| 46 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 larger | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang down | participle · passive | heavy black cobwebs | the rooms | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in room=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | with dust | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dust=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | everything | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | climb | gerund | plants | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location plant=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run | past | climbing | like a net between the trees and bushes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grow | past | the hemlock and nettle | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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