Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 48
The root, spreading deep into the earth, the top rising high in the fresh air, knew the value of the drifted snow, the keen wind, and the warm sunshine, as it ought to be known. '
Who acts: root, top · What happens: spread, rise, know, drift, value · To what, where: earth, fresh air, value, warm sunshine, drifted snow
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 (root, top), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 root | det |
| 2 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spreading | punct |
| 4 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 root | acl |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 4 spreading | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 earth | det |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spreading | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 top | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 earth | appos |
| 12 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 top | acl |
| 13 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 rising | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 air | amod |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rising | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 root | punct |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 value | det |
| 21 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knew | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 snow | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 snow | det |
| 24 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 snow | amod |
| 25 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 value | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wind | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wind | det |
| 28 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wind | amod |
| 29 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 snow | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 known | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 known | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sunshine | det |
| 33 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sunshine | amod |
| 34 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 known | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ought | punct |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 ought | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 ought | nsubj |
| 38 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 known | aux |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 known | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 known | aux:pass |
| 41 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 knew | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 43 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | gerund | the root not said here | the earth | deep property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into earth=Destination | |||
| 2 | rise | gerund | the top not said here | the fresh air | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | |||
| 3 | know | past | the root | the value of the drifted snow and the keen wind | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | drift | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | know | ought · passive | the warm sunshine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | value | the drifted snow and the keen wind | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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