Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 26
They were placed on the counter as samples, and after lying there a long time they at last fell in love with each other; but neither of them spoke of it to the other, as they should have done if they expected anything to follow. '
Who acts: cakes, neither · What happens: place, lie, fall, speak, do, expect · To what, where: cakes, counter, long time, love, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cakes, neither), 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 | 3 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | aux:pass |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 counter | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 counter | det |
| 6 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 samples | case |
| 8 | samples | sample | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 placed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lying | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lying | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 lying | mark |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 placed | advcl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lying | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 they | nmod |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 each | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 20 fell | obl |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 spoke | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 spoke | cc |
| 28 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 spoke | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 neither | nmod |
| 31 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 spoke | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 other | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 other | det |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 spoke | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 done | punct |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 done | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 done | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 done | aux |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 done | aux |
| 42 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 spoke | conj |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 expected | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 expected | nsubj |
| 45 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 done | advcl |
| 46 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 expected | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 follow | mark |
| 48 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 anything | acl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | cakes = cake | the counter | as samples | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on counter=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | there | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | cakes = cake | a long time not said here | love | with each | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result | ||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | neither | of love; to the other | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to other=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | should · perfect | cakes = cake | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | expect a condition, not said to happen | past | cakes = cake | anything | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 7 | follow | to-infinitive | cakes = cake not said here | anything not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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