Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 17
The young chestnut tree had also listened to the stories; for the Dryad who lived in it was a child also.
Who acts: tree · What happens: listen, live, be · To what, where: young chestnut tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 3 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 listened | aux |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 listened | advmod |
| 7 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stories | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stories | det |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 listened | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 lived | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Dryad | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dryad | det |
| 14 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 listened | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 child | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 child | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 child | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 child | det |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 lived | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · perfect · passive | the young chestnut tree | to the stories | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | for the Dryad | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | tree | in a child | tree rules |
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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