Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 3
And now the tree was lifted on the wagon and secured with chains.
What happens: lift, secure · To what, where: tree, wagon
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lifted | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lifted | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lifted | aux:pass |
| 6 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wagon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wagon | det |
| 9 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lifted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 secured | cc |
| 11 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lifted | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 chains | case |
| 13 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 secured | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past · passive | the tree | the wagon | now | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wagon=Destination | |||
| 2 | secure | participle | with chains | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with chain=Co-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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