Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 52
So the tree with the black stork's nest was left standing; the tree itself, however, was not worth much to speak of.
Who acts: tree · What happens: leave, stand, not be, speak · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 left | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 nest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stork | det |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stork | amod |
| 7 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 stork | case |
| 9 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux:pass |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 left | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 tree | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worth | punct |
| 18 | however | however | ADV | _ | 22 worth | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 however | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 worth | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 worth | advmod |
| 22 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 left | parataxis |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 worth | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 speak | mark |
| 25 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 worth | xcomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 speak | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | the tree with the black stork's nest | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the tree with the black stork's nest not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | however, worth property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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