Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 41
In the meantime the willow tree near the drawbridge had grown up into a splendid tree, and stood there, free, and was never clipped. "
What happens: grow up, stand, not clip · To what, where: willow tree, meantime
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: 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 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grown | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 drawbridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 drawbridge | det |
| 9 | drawbridge | drawbridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | nmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grown | aux |
| 11 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grown | compound:prt |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 15 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grown | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grown | conj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stood | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 free | punct |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stood | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 clipped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 clipped | cc |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 clipped | aux:pass |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 clipped | advmod |
| 27 | clipped | clip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stood | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grown | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · perfect · passive | the willow tree near the drawbridge | the meantime | into a splendid tree | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into tree=Product | |||
| 2 | stand | past | there | free property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not clip | past · passive | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
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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