Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 77
He was like a rare plant, torn from its native soil, and tossed upon the beach to wither there.
Who acts: end, plant · What happens: be, tear, toss, wither, soil · To what, where: rare plant, native soil, beach
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, plant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 plant | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plant | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 plant | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plant | det |
| 5 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plant | amod |
| 6 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 torn | punct |
| 8 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 plant | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 soil | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 soil | nmod:poss |
| 11 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soil | amod |
| 12 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 torn | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tossed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tossed | cc |
| 15 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plant | parataxis |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 beach | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beach | det |
| 18 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tossed | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 wither | mark |
| 20 | wither | wither | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tossed | advcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 wither | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | end | like a rare plant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | participle | a rare plant not said here | plant's native soil | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from soil=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | toss | past | the beach | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon beach=Destination | |||||
| 4 | wither | to-infinitive | there | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | soil | plant | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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