Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 49
The grapes were ripened by the frost just as we are.
Who acts: frost, we · What happens: ripen, be · To what, where: grapes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frost, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grapes | det |
| 2 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ripened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ripened | aux:pass |
| 4 | ripened | ripen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 frost | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 frost | det |
| 7 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ripened | obl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 are | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 are | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 are | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ripened | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ripened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ripen | past · passive | the frost | the grapes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | be | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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