Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 18
The pomegranate seed from Spain became a hardy plant on the coast of West Jutland.
Who acts: pomegranate seed · What happens: become · To what, where: hardy plant
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pomegranate seed), 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 | 3 seed | det |
| 2 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seed | compound |
| 3 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Spain | case |
| 5 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seed | nmod |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plant | det |
| 8 | hardy | hardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plant | amod |
| 9 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 coast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coast | det |
| 12 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plant | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Jutland | case |
| 14 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Jutland | compound |
| 15 | Jutland | Jutland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 coast | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the pomegranate seed from Spain | a hardy plant on the coast of West Jutland | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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