Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 29
There grows no plantain where no foot has trod."
What happens: grow, tread · To what, where: plantain, foot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 grows | expl |
| 2 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 plantain | det |
| 4 | plantain | plantain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grows | obj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 trod | advmod |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 foot | det |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trod | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 trod | aux |
| 9 | trod | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 plantain | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grows | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | no plantain | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plantain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tread | present · perfect · passive | no foot | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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