Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 15
They were not very handsome trees, for the tops had been cut off; however, they were intended for use, and not for show.
Who acts: parents · What happens: not be, cut off, intend · To what, where: handsome trees, parents
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: who acts (parents), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trees | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trees | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 trees | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 handsome | advmod |
| 5 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trees | amod |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tops | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 tops | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tops | det |
| 10 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trees | conj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cut | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 cut | aux:pass |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 cut | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 intended | punct |
| 16 | however | however | ADV | _ | 20 intended | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 however | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 intended | aux:pass |
| 20 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cut | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 use | case |
| 22 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 intended | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 show | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 show | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 show | advmod |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 show | case |
| 27 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 intended | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | parents = parent | handsome trees and the tops | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | handsome trees and the tops | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | intend | past · passive | parents = parent | for use; for show; however property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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