Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 46
Here it stood, and showed how beautiful a willow can look if one does not interfere with it.
Who acts: pool, willow, one · What happens: stand, show, look, not interfere · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pool, willow, one), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 showed | cc |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 look | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 willow | det |
| 10 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 showed | ccomp |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 interfere | mark |
| 14 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 interfere | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 interfere | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 interfere | advmod |
| 17 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 look | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 interfere | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | pool | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past | pool not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | can | a willow | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not interfere a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | one | with pool | tree rules |
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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