Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 53

The lawn was as green as if each blade of grass was cleaned separately morning and evening.

Who acts: lawn · What happens: be, clean · To what, where: blade

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 (lawn), 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	2 lawn	det
2	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 green	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 green	cop
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 green	advmod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 cleaned	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 cleaned	mark
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 blade	det
9	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleaned	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 grass	case
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blade	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cleaned	aux:pass
13	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 green	parataxis
14	separately	separately	ADV	_	13 cleaned	advmod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleaned	obl:unmarked
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 evening	cc
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 morning	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 green	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lawn					green property	tree rules
2	clean a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		each blade of grass			morning	separately property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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