Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 39
It had a tall trunk with a wide-spreading top, and was very old.
Who acts: oak · What happens: have, spread, be · To what, where: tall trunk
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oak), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trunk | det |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trunk | amod |
| 5 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spreading | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wide | punct |
| 10 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 top | amod |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 old | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 old | advmod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | oak | a tall trunk | with a spreading top | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient | |||
| 2 | spread | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | old property | tree rules |
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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