Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 64
Inside these walls the ropemaker twisted his ropes along a walk built like a gallery, and in the cracks and crevices of the walls elderbushes grow and stretch their green boughs over the small houses which stand below.
Who acts: ropemaker, small houses · What happens: twist, build, grow, stretch, stand · To what, where: ropes, walls, walk, cracks, green boughs, small houses
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 (ropemaker, small houses), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 walls | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 walls | det |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 twisted | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ropemaker | det |
| 5 | ropemaker | ropemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 twisted | nsubj |
| 6 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ropes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 twisted | obj |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 walk | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 walk | det |
| 11 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 twisted | obl |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 walk | acl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 gallery | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gallery | det |
| 15 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grow | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 grow | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cracks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cracks | det |
| 20 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 grow | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crevices | cc |
| 22 | crevices | crevice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cracks | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 walls | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 walls | det |
| 25 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cracks | nmod |
| 26 | elderbushes | elderbush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 walls | conj |
| 27 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 twisted | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stretch | cc |
| 29 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 grow | conj |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 boughs | nmod:poss |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 boughs | amod |
| 32 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stretch | obj |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 houses | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 houses | det |
| 35 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 houses | amod |
| 36 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stretch | obl |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 stand | nsubj |
| 38 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 houses | acl:relcl |
| 39 | below | below | ADV | _ | 38 stand | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | the ropemaker | ropemaker's ropes | this walls | along a walk | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent rope=Theme inside wall=Source along walk=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | build | participle | a walk not said here | like a gallery | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the cracks of the walls and elderbushes and crevices | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crack=Location | |||||
| 4 | stretch | present | walls's green boughs | the small houses | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bough=Patient | ||||
| 5 | stand | present | the small houses | below property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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