Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 1
People appeared with spades and poles; they dug round the roots of the tree, deeper and deeper, and beneath it.
Who acts: People · What happens: appear, dig · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 spades | case |
| 4 | spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 appeared | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 poles | cc |
| 6 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spades | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 dug | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dug | nsubj |
| 9 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 roots | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roots | det |
| 12 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dug | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roots | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 deeper | punct |
| 17 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 dug | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 deeper | cc |
| 19 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 deeper | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 it | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 it | cc |
| 22 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dug | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | People | with spades and poles | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dig | past | People | tree | round the roots of the tree | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location |
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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