Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 14
Along this road--a row of willow-trees had been planted to separate it from a ditch on one side of it.
What happens: plant, separate · To what, where: row
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. 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 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 3 road | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 planted | obl |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 road | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 row | det |
| 6 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 planted | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 8 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 willow | punct |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 row | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 planted | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 planted | aux:pass |
| 13 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 separate | mark |
| 15 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 planted | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 separate | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 ditch | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ditch | det |
| 19 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 separate | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 side | nummod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 separate | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | past · perfect · passive | a row of willow trees | along this road | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | separate | to-infinitive | row | on one side of road; from a ditch | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from ditch=Co-Patient |
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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