Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 36
In imagination he saw the heath blossom and become purple with rich juicy berries, and the elder-bushes and lime-trees at Norre Vosborg in flower.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: see, become · To what, where: heath blossom, imagination
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 imagination | case |
| 2 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blossom | det |
| 6 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blossom | compound |
| 7 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 become | cc |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | conj |
| 10 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 become | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 berries | case |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 berries | amod |
| 13 | juicy | juicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 berries | amod |
| 14 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 purple | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bushes | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bushes | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bushes | det |
| 18 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bushes | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 elder | punct |
| 20 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 trees | cc |
| 22 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trees | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 lime | punct |
| 24 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bushes | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 Norre | case |
| 26 | Norre | Norre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bushes | nmod |
| 27 | Vosborg | Vosborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Norre | flat |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 flower | case |
| 29 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Jurgen | the heath blossom | imagination | in flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blossom=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | become | infinitive | Jurgen not said here | purple property | 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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