Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 3

Close by the drawbridge, near the gate, there was an old willow tree, which bent over the reeds.

Who acts: drawbridge, old willow tree · What happens: be, bend · To what, where: old willow tree, reeds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drawbridge, old willow tree), 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	Close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 drawbridge	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 drawbridge	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drawbridge	det
4	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gate	punct
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drawbridge	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 was	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
14	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bent	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 bent	nsubj
18	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	conj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 reeds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reeds	det
21	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bent	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tree	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the drawbridge and the gate	a old willow tree					tree rules
2	bend	past	a old willow tree			the reeds			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over reed=Location

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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