Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 141
She had known nothing of this in the beautiful garden, where the sun shone and the flowers grew all the year round.
Who acts: Gerda, sun, flowers · What happens: know, shine, grow · To what, where: nothing, beautiful garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, sun, flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11871): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 known | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 known | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 garden | amod |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shone | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 shone | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shone | nsubj |
| 15 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 garden | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grew | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flowers | det |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shone | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 year | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 year | det |
| 22 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 grew | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · perfect | Gerda | nothing | the beautiful garden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | shine | past | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | the flowers | year | round property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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