Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 12
The summer and the autumn passed; the rose-tree bore roses and buds till the snow fell and the weather became raw and wet; then it bent down its head, and the snail crept into the ground.
Who acts: summer, snow, weather, snail · What happens: pass, fall, become, bend down, creep · To what, where: head, ground
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summer, snow, weather, snail), 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 summer | det |
| 2 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 autumn | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 autumn | det |
| 5 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 summer | conj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 roses | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bore | det |
| 9 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bore | compound |
| 12 | bore | bore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roses | compound |
| 13 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 buds | cc |
| 15 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 roses | conj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 fell | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 snow | det |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 became | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 weather | det |
| 22 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 became | nsubj |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fell | conj |
| 24 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 became | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wet | cc |
| 26 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 raw | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 bent | punct |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 bent | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bent | nsubj |
| 30 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 bent | compound:prt |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bent | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 crept | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 crept | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 snail | det |
| 37 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 crept | nsubj |
| 38 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 bent | conj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 ground | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 ground | det |
| 41 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 crept | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the summer and the autumn | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | the snow | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | the weather | raw property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bend down | past | weather | weather's head | then | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | |||
| 5 | creep | past | the snail | the ground | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ground=Destination |
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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