Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 1
It was lovely summer weather in the country, and the golden corn, the green oats, and the haystacks piled up in the meadows looked beautiful.
Who acts: It, haystacks · What happens: be, pile up, look · To what, where: lovely summer weather, country, haystacks, meadows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, haystacks), 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 | 5 weather | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weather | cop |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weather | amod |
| 4 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weather | compound |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weather | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 corn | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 corn | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 corn | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 corn | amod |
| 13 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weather | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 oats | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 oats | det |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 oats | amod |
| 17 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 corn | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 looked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 looked | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 haystacks | det |
| 21 | haystacks | haystack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | piled | pile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 haystacks | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 piled | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 meadows | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 meadows | det |
| 26 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 piled | obl |
| 27 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 corn | conj |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 looked | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 weather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | lovely summer weather | the country | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pile up | participle | the haystacks not said here | the meadows | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in meadow=Destination | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the haystacks | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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