Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 24
A willow-tree grew by the roadside, everything reminded him of home.
Who acts: willow tree, everything · What happens: grow, remind · To what, where: Knud
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (willow tree, everything), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 willow | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 roadside | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roadside | det |
| 8 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reminded | punct |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 reminded | nsubj |
| 11 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reminded | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reminded | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | a willow tree | by the roadside | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by roadside=Location | ||||
| 2 | remind speech: other | past | everything | Knud | of home | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of home=Topic |
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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