Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 25
There were beautiful flowers, old trees, sloping fields, in which cows and sheep were grazing, but not a man to be seen.
Who acts: beautiful flowers, cows · What happens: be, slope, graze, see · To what, where: fields, man
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 (beautiful flowers, cows), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flowers | amod |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trees | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trees | amod |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flowers | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sloping | punct |
| 9 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 were | advcl |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sloping | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grazing | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 grazing | obl |
| 14 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grazing | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sheep | cc |
| 16 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cows | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grazing | aux |
| 18 | grazing | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sloping | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seen | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 seen | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 man | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 seen | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 were | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | beautiful flowers and old trees | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slope | gerund | beautiful flowers and old trees not said here | fields | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location field=Theme | ||||
| 3 | graze | past · progressive | cows and sheep | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive · passive | a man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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