Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 22
The chimneys rose like flower-pots ranged side by side, or in rows one above the other, on the roofs.
Who acts: chimneys, flower pots · What happens: rise, range · To what, where: rows, side
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 (chimneys, flower pots), 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 chimneys | det |
| 2 | chimneys | chimney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 pots | case |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pots | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 7 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | obl |
| 8 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pots | acl |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ranged | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ranged | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rows | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 rows | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 rows | case |
| 15 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | obl |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 rows | flat |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 other | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 roofs | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 roofs | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 roofs | det |
| 23 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the chimneys | rows | like flower pots; on the roofs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | |||
| 2 | range | participle | flower pots not said here | side | by side | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location side=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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