Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 36
The next day they went into the churchyard, and took the two cake figures with them, and sat down under the church wall, which was covered with luxuriant ivy in summer and winter, and looked as if hung with rich tapestry.
Who acts: children · What happens: go, take, sit down, cover, look, hang · To what, where: churchyard, two cake figures, church wall
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 (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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 churchyard | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 churchyard | det |
| 8 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 figures | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 figures | nummod |
| 14 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 figures | compound |
| 15 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sat | cc |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 sat | compound:prt |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 wall | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wall | det |
| 24 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wall | compound |
| 25 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 covered | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 covered | aux:pass |
| 29 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 wall | acl:relcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 ivy | case |
| 31 | luxuriant | luxuriant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 ivy | amod |
| 32 | ivy | ivy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 covered | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 summer | case |
| 34 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ivy | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 winter | cc |
| 36 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ivy | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 looked | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 looked | cc |
| 39 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 hung | mark |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 hung | mark |
| 42 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 looked | xcomp |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 tapestry | case |
| 44 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 tapestry | amod |
| 45 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hung | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | children = child | the churchyard | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into churchyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | the two cake figures | with children = child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | the church wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wall=Location | |||||
| 4 | cover | past · passive | the church wall | with luxuriant ivy in summer and winter | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ivy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | past | children = child not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | hang a condition, not said to happen | participle | children = child not said here | with rich tapestry | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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