Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 25
Just by stood a thorn-bush; it had neither leaf nor flower, for it was the cold winter time, and icicles hung on the branches. "
Who acts: bush · What happens: stand, have, be, hang · To what, where: thorn bush, leaf, icicles, branches
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bush), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bush | det |
| 5 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bush | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 thorn | punct |
| 7 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 11 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 leaf | det |
| 12 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 flower | cc |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaf | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 time | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 time | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 time | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 21 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | compound |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 icicles | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 icicles | cc |
| 25 | icicles | icicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 26 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 icicles | acl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 branches | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 branches | det |
| 29 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hung | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a thorn bush | icicles obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bush=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | bush | neither leaf nor flower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | bush | for the cold winter time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hang | participle | icicles not said here | the branches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location |
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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