Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 70
Here grew no elder; here was not even a flower-pot, with its little green plant; but just opposite the workshop stood a great willow-tree, which seemed to hold fast to the house for fear of being carried away by the water.
Who acts: workshop, great willow tree, water · What happens: grow, not be, opposite, stand, seem, hold · To what, where: elder, flower pot, great willow tree, fear
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 (workshop, great willow tree, water), 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 | 2 grew | advmod |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 elder | det |
| 4 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 pot | punct |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 pot | advmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pot | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 pot | advmod |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 pot | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pot | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 flower | punct |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 plant | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 plant | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 plant | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plant | amod |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plant | amod |
| 19 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pot | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 opposite | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 opposite | cc |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 opposite | advmod |
| 23 | opposite | opposite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grew | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 workshop | det |
| 25 | workshop | workshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stood | nsubj |
| 26 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 opposite | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tree | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tree | amod |
| 29 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tree | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 willow | punct |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stood | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 seemed | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 seemed | nsubj |
| 34 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 tree | acl:relcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 hold | mark |
| 36 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 seemed | xcomp |
| 37 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 hold | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 house | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 house | det |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hold | obl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 fear | case |
| 42 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hold | obl |
| 43 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 45 carried | mark |
| 44 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 carried | aux:pass |
| 45 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 fear | acl |
| 46 | away | away | ADV | _ | 45 carried | advmod |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 water | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 water | det |
| 49 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 carried | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | no elder | here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location elder=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | a flower pot and elder's little green plant | here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | opposite | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | stand | past | the workshop | a great willow tree | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | a great willow tree | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | hold | to-infinitive | a great willow tree not said here | to the house; for fear; fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | carry away | gerund · passive | the water | fear not said here | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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