Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 18

She remembered the time when the tree was so little that it only projected a short way above the grass and ferns around.

Who acts: clergyman, tree · What happens: remember, be, project · To what, where: short way, grass

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 (clergyman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembered	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 little	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 little	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 little	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remembered	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 projected	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 projected	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 projected	advmod
14	projected	project	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 little	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 projected	obj
18	above	above	ADP	_	20 grass	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grass	det
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ferns	cc
22	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 grass	conj
23	around	around	ADV	_	22 ferns	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	clergyman			time		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the tree				little property	tree rules
3	project	past	tree	a short way	the grass and ferns			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme above grass=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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