Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 67
The piece of turf, with the little daisy in it, was thrown out on the dusty highway.
What happens: throw out · To what, where: piece, dusty highway
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 piece | det |
| 2 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 turf | case |
| 4 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piece | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 daisy | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 daisy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 daisy | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 daisy | amod |
| 9 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piece | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 daisy | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 piece | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | aux:pass |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 thrown | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 highway | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 highway | det |
| 18 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 highway | amod |
| 19 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw out | past · passive | the piece of turf and the little daisy in body | the dusty highway | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on highway=Destination |
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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