Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 39
Then the birds began to twitter, and the forest too was full of green young leaves; and out of it came a beautiful horse, which Gerda remembered, for it was one which had drawn the golden coach.
Who acts: birds, forest, beautiful horse · What happens: begin, twitter, be, come, remember, draw · To what, where: beautiful horse, forest, golden coach · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, forest, beautiful horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birds | det |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 twitter | mark |
| 6 | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp | ||
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 full | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 full | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | nsubj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 full | advmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 full | cop |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 began | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 leaves | case |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 leaves | amod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 leaves | amod |
| 17 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 full | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | obl |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 horse | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 horse | amod |
| 26 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 remembered | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 remembered | nsubj |
| 29 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 remembered | nsubj |
| 30 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 horse | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 drawn | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 one | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 one | cop |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 drawn | obl |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 drawn | aux |
| 38 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 remembered | ccomp |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 coach | det |
| 40 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 coach | amod |
| 41 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 drawn | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the birds | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | to-infinitive | the birds not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the forest | of green young leaves; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the birds not said here | a beautiful horse | forest | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | |||
| 5 | remember | past | a beautiful horse | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | forest | for one | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | draw | past · perfect · passive | the golden coach | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary coach=Result |
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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