Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 3
The corn-fields and meadows were surrounded by large forests, in the midst of which were deep pools.
Who acts: midst · What happens: surround, be · To what, where: corn fields, deep pools
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 (midst), 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 | 4 fields | det |
| 2 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fields | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 corn | punct |
| 4 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 meadows | cc |
| 6 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fields | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 8 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 forests | case |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 forests | amod |
| 11 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 surrounded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 midst | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 midst | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 midst | det |
| 15 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 pools | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pools | cop |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pools | amod |
| 20 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 midst | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | the midst | the corn fields and meadows | by large forests | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the midst | deep pools | tree rules |
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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