Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 2
A wagon was brought out, drawn by many horses, and the tree was lifted up, with its roots and the lumps of earth that adhered to them; matting was placed around the roots, as though the tree had its feet in a warm bag.
Who acts: earth, tree · What happens: bring out, draw, lift up, adhere, mat, place · To what, where: wagon, tree, roots, feet, warm bag
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 (earth, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wagon | det |
| 2 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 brought | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drawn | punct |
| 7 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 horses | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horses | amod |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drawn | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lifted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lifted | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lifted | aux:pass |
| 16 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 lifted | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 roots | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 roots | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 roots | nmod:poss |
| 21 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lumps | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lumps | det |
| 24 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 roots | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 earth | case |
| 26 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lumps | nmod |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 adhered | nsubj |
| 28 | adhered | adhere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 earth | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 adhered | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 placed | punct |
| 32 | matting | mat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 placed | aux:pass |
| 34 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 35 | around | around | ADP | _ | 37 roots | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 roots | det |
| 37 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 placed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 had | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 had | mark |
| 40 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 43 had | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 tree | det |
| 42 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 had | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 placed | conj |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 feet | nmod:poss |
| 45 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 had | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 bag | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 bag | det |
| 48 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 bag | amod |
| 49 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 had | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | past · passive | a wagon | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | draw | participle | by many horses | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lift up | past · passive | the tree | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | adhere | past | earth | roots = root | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | mat | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | place | past · passive | the roots | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme around root=Destination | |||||
| 7 | have | past | the tree | tree's feet | a warm bag | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
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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