Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 5

Such indeed was the opinion of two little children, whose parents were neighbors, and who played in these gardens, and forced their way from one garden to the other through the gooseberry-bushes that divided them.

Who acts: parents, gooseberry bushes · What happens: be, play, force, divide · To what, where: neighbors, gardens, way, one garden

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, gooseberry bushes), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	5 opinion	case
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	1 Such	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opinion	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 opinion	det
5	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 played	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 children	nummod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opinion	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 neighbors	punct
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 parents	nmod:poss
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 neighbors	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 neighbors	cop
14	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 children	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 played	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 played	cc
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 played	nsubj
18	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 gardens	case
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 gardens	det
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 played	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forced	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 forced	cc
24	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 played	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 way	nmod:poss
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forced	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 garden	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 garden	nummod
29	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forced	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 other	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 other	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 forced	obl
33	through	through	ADP	_	37 bushes	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bushes	det
35	gooseberry	gooseberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bushes	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 gooseberry	punct
37	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 forced	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 divided	nsubj
39	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 bushes	acl:relcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 divided	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				such the opinion; of two little children and neighbors	tree rules
2	is a	past	neighbors's parents	neighbors			tree rules
3	play	past			this gardens		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	force	past		gardens's way	one garden	to the other; through the gooseberry bushes	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
5	divide	past	the gooseberry bushes	gardens = garden			vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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