Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 76
Pictures and flowers were scattered about.
What happens: scatter · To what, where: Pictures
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: 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 | Pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 flowers | cc |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pictures | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scattered | aux:pass |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 scattered | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past · passive | Pictures and flowers | about property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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