Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 4
On the grave of the prince's father grew a rose-tree, the most beautiful of its kind.
Who acts: father · What happens: grow · To what, where: rose tree, grave
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 grave | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grave | det |
| 3 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 prince | case |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beautiful | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kind | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 kind | nmod:poss |
| 20 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beautiful | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the prince's father | a rose tree | the grave | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
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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