Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 78
The blood-beech had been outgrown by other trees, and now stood in the shade; and its leaves were green like those of the common trees, and its glory had departed.
Who acts: other trees, leaves, shade · What happens: outgrow, stand, be, depart, glory · To what, where: blood beech, shade, glory
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 (other trees, leaves, shade), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beech | det |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beech | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 blood | punct |
| 4 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 outgrown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 outgrown | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 outgrown | aux:pass |
| 7 | outgrown | outgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trees | amod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 outgrown | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stood | advmod |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 outgrown | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shade | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shade | det |
| 17 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 green | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leaves | cc |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 green | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 green | cop |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 outgrown | conj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 those | case |
| 25 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 green | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trees | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trees | det |
| 28 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 trees | amod |
| 29 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 those | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 departed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 departed | cc |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 glory | nmod:poss |
| 33 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 departed | aux |
| 35 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 outgrown | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 outgrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outgrow | past · perfect · passive | other trees | the blood beech | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | other trees not said here | the shade | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | shade's leaves | like those; green property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | depart | past · perfect · passive | shade's glory | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | glory | shade | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=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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