Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 57
Here, in the market-place, stood Knud, with his knapsack on his back, close to one of the old fountains which are so beautifully adorned with figures, scriptural and historical, and which spring up between the sparkling jets of water.
What happens: stand, adorn, spring up · To what, where: Knud, market place, old fountains, sparkling jets
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: 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stood | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 market | punct |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 place | punct |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knapsack | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 knapsack | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 14 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knapsack | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 close | punct |
| 19 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 close | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fountains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fountains | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fountains | amod |
| 25 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 adorned | aux:pass |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 adorned | advmod |
| 29 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 30 adorned | advmod |
| 30 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 fountains | acl:relcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 figures | case |
| 32 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 adorned | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 scriptural | punct |
| 34 | scriptural | scriptural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 figures | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 historical | cc |
| 36 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 scriptural | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 spring | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 spring | cc |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 spring | nsubj |
| 40 | spring | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | parataxis |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 spring | compound:prt |
| 42 | between | between | ADP | _ | 45 jets | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 jets | det |
| 44 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 jets | amod |
| 45 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 spring | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 water | case |
| 47 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 jets | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Knud | the market place; here | with Knud's knapsack on Knud's back | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent knud=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 2 | adorn | present · passive | the old fountains | beautifully property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spring up | present | the sparkling jets of water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between jet=Location |
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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