Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 57
It is God who makes the wild apples grow in the wood, to satisfy the hungry, and He now led her to one of these trees, which was so loaded with fruit, that the boughs bent beneath the weight.
Who acts: opening, God, wild apples, boughs · What happens: be, make, grow, satisfy, lead, load · To what, where: God, wood, hungry, daughter, one, trees
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 (opening, God, wild apples, boughs), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 God | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 God | cop |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 apples | det |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 apples | amod |
| 8 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grow | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 satisfy | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 satisfy | mark |
| 15 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 grow | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hungry | det |
| 17 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 satisfy | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 led | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 led | cc |
| 20 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 led | nsubj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 led | advmod |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | parataxis |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 led | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 led | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 trees | det |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 loaded | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 loaded | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 loaded | aux:pass |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 loaded | advmod |
| 33 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 trees | acl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 fruit | case |
| 35 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 loaded | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bent | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 bent | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 boughs | det |
| 39 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 bent | nsubj |
| 40 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 led | conj |
| 41 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 43 weight | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 weight | det |
| 43 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bent | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | opening | God | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | God | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | the wild apples | the wood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 4 | satisfy | to-infinitive | the wild apples not said here | the hungry | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hungry=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | God | daughter | one of this trees | now | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to one=Destination | ||
| 6 | load | past · passive | this trees | with fruit | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fruit=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bend | past | the boughs | the weight | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath weight=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.
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