Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 78
The heath stretched far and wide around them like a beautiful carpet.
What happens: stretch · To what, where: heath
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: 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 heath | det |
| 2 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 heath | acl |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stretched | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wide | cc |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stretched | conj |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wide | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 carpet | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 carpet | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carpet | amod |
| 12 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | participle | the heath not said here | like a beautiful carpet; far property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: 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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