Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 59
Four-leaved shamrocks grew there; there were seven specimens close to each other.
Who acts: leaved shamrocks, seven specimens · What happens: grow, be
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: who acts (leaved shamrocks, seven specimens), 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 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 leaved | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Four | punct |
| 3 | leaved | leaved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shamrocks | amod |
| 4 | shamrocks | shamrock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 grew | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 were | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 specimens | nummod |
| 11 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 12 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 specimens | amod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 each | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 close | obl |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 each | fixed |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | leaved shamrocks | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | seven specimens | there | 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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