Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 6
In one of the gardens grew an elder-tree, and in the other an old willow, under which the children were very fond of playing.
Who acts: gardens, children · What happens: grow, be, play · To what, where: elder tree, other old willow
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 (gardens, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 grew | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gardens | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardens | det |
| 5 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 elder | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 willow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 willow | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 willow | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 willow | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 willow | amod |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 willow | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 willow | amod |
| 18 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fond | punct |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fond | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fond | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fond | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 fond | advmod |
| 26 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 willow | conj |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 playing | mark |
| 28 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 fond | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the gardens | a elder tree | the other old willow | in one | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | the children | the other old willow | fond property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | play | gerund | the children not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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