Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 118
The leaves of the forest put on colors of red and gold, and bright tints covered the woodlands.
Who acts: bright tints · What happens: put, cover · To what, where: leaves, colors
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bright tints), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 leaves | det |
| 2 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | nmod |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 leaves | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 colors | case |
| 8 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gold | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gold | cc |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 colors | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 covered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 covered | cc |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tints | amod |
| 16 | tints | tint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | nsubj |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woodlands | det |
| 19 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the leaves of the forest not said here | colors of red gold | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on color=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | bright tints | the leaves of the forest | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woodland=Destination |
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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