Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 56
Gables, with little towers, ornamented columns, and statues, can be seen even to the city gate; and from the singular-shaped roofs, waterspouts, formed like dragons, or long lean dogs, extend far across to the middle of the street.
Who acts: Gables · What happens: ornament, see, shape, form, extend · To what, where: statues, shaped roofs, middle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gables), 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 | Gables | gable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 extend | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 towers | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 towers | case |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 towers | amod |
| 5 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Gables | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 columns | punct |
| 7 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 columns | amod |
| 8 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Gables | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seen | cc |
| 11 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 statues | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Gables | acl |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 gate | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 gate | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gate | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gate | compound |
| 20 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 roofs | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 roofs | cc |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 roofs | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 roofs | det |
| 25 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shaped | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 singular | punct |
| 27 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 roofs | amod |
| 28 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Gables | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 waterspouts | punct |
| 30 | waterspouts | waterspout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 roofs | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 formed | punct |
| 32 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 roofs | acl:relcl |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 dragons | case |
| 34 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 formed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dogs | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 dogs | cc |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 dogs | amod |
| 38 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 dogs | amod |
| 39 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 dragons | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gables | punct |
| 41 | extend | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 across | advmod |
| 43 | across | across | ADV | _ | 41 extend | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 middle | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 middle | det |
| 46 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 extend | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 street | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 street | det |
| 49 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 middle | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 extend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ornament | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | see | can · passive | Gables and little towers and ornamented columns and the shaped roofs and waterspouts not said here | statues | to the city gate | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | form | participle | the shaped roofs and waterspouts not said here | like dragons or long lean dogs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | extend | present | Gables and little towers and ornamented columns and the shaped roofs and waterspouts | the middle of the street | across property | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to middle=Recipient |
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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