Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 27
At length she came to a large cherry orchard, in which stood a small red house with strange red and blue windows.
Who acts: Gerda · What happens: come, stand · To what, where: length, small red house
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 orchard | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 orchard | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 orchard | amod |
| 8 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 orchard | compound |
| 9 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 windows | case |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 windows | amod |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 windows | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blue | cc |
| 22 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 red | conj |
| 23 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Gerda | length | to a large cherry orchard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to orchard=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | a small red house | with strange red windows | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=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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