Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 79
The forest already wore its dress of dark-green buds.
Who acts: forest · What happens: wear · To what, where: dress
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 (forest), 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 forest | det |
| 2 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 wore | advmod |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dress | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 buds | case |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 green | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 dark | punct |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 buds | amod |
| 11 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dress | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | the forest | forest's dress of green buds | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=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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