Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 4

It must be owned that there are in the outskirts of the town some humble gardens on the banks of a little stream that runs on towards the sea, and in summer these gardens look very pretty.

Who acts: little stream, gardens · What happens: own, be, run, look · To what, where: spot, outskirts, sea

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 (little stream, gardens), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 owned	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 owned	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 owned	aux:pass
4	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 are	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 are	expl
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 owned	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 outskirts	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 outskirts	det
10	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 are	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 outskirts	nmod
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 gardens	det
15	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gardens	amod
16	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 town	appos
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 banks	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 banks	det
19	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gardens	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 stream	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 stream	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stream	amod
23	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 banks	nmod
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 runs	nsubj
25	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stream	acl:relcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 sea	case
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 runs	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 look	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 look	cc
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 summer	case
33	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 look	obl
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 gardens	det
35	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 look	nsubj
36	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 owned	conj
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 pretty	advmod
38	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	36 look	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 owned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	must · passive		spot				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	be	present			the outskirts of the town; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in outskirt=Location
3	run	present	a little stream		the sea			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory
4	look	present	this gardens			summer	pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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