Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 84
We have met in the garden, in the hollow lane, in the field and meadow, where she gathered herbs and flowers which she knew would be useful to her father in preparing the drugs and mixtures he was always concocting.
Who acts: We, smile, field, shipbuilder · What happens: meet, gather, know, be, prepare, concoct · To what, where: garden, herbs, drugs
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 (We, smile, field, shipbuilder), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 met | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 met | aux |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lane | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lane | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lane | det |
| 10 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lane | amod |
| 11 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 field | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 field | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 field | det |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 useful | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 meadow | cc |
| 17 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 field | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gathered | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 gathered | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gathered | nsubj |
| 21 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 field | conj |
| 22 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gathered | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flowers | cc |
| 24 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 herbs | conj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 knew | obj |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 knew | nsubj |
| 27 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 herbs | acl:relcl |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 useful | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 useful | cop |
| 30 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 met | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 father | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 useful | obl |
| 34 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 35 preparing | mark |
| 35 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 useful | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 drugs | det |
| 37 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 preparing | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 mixtures | cc |
| 39 | mixtures | mixture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 drugs | conj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 concocting | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 concocting | aux |
| 42 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 43 concocting | advmod |
| 43 | concocting | concoct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 drugs | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present · perfect | We | the garden | in the hollow lane | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | gather | past | smile | herbs and flowers | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | smile | herbs and flowers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | would | the field and meadow | to smile's father; useful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | prepare | gerund | the field and meadow not said here | the drugs and mixtures | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Patient | ||||
| 6 | concoct | past · progressive | shipbuilder | the drugs and mixtures not said here | always property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Result |
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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