Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 51
Bushes grew thickly round the lake, and at one spot an opening had been made by a deer, through which Eliza went down to the water.
Who acts: Bushes, deer, Eliza · What happens: grow, make, go down · To what, where: opening, one spot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bushes, deer, Eliza), 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 | Bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 spot | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 spot | nummod |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 opening | det |
| 13 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 made | aux:pass |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 grew | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 deer | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 deer | det |
| 19 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 went | obl |
| 23 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | conj |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Bushes | round the lake; thickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | a deer | a opening | one spot | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 3 | go down | past | Eliza | to the water; down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/51/