Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 16

The old willow-tree in the garden was much handsomer, and therefore the children were very fond of sitting under it.

Who acts: old willow tree, children · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: tree

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 (old willow tree, children), 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	5 tree	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 willow	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 handsomer	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 handsomer	cop
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 handsomer	advmod
11	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fond	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fond	cc
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	19 fond	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 children	det
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fond	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fond	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 fond	advmod
19	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 handsomer	conj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 sitting	mark
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 fond	advcl
22	under	under	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sitting	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 handsomer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old willow tree in the garden		handsome property	tree rules
2	is	past	the children		fond, therefore property	tree rules
3	sit	gerund	the children not said here	tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under it=Location

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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