Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 56
Colored lamps surrounded little lakes, in which were water-plants of colored metal, from whose flowers jets of water spurted up.
Who acts: Colored lamps · What happens: color, surround, be, spurt up · To what, where: little lakes, water plants, flowers jets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Colored lamps), 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 | Colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lamps | amod |
| 2 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lamps | acl |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lakes | amod |
| 5 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 surrounded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plants | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 plants | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 plants | cop |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plants | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 12 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lamps | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 metal | case |
| 14 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 metal | amod |
| 15 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plants | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 jets | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 jets | case |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 jets | compound |
| 20 | jets | jet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lamps | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jets | nmod |
| 23 | spurted | spurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 jets | acl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 spurted | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lamps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | surround | participle | Colored lamps and water plants and flowers jets of water not said here | little lakes | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Colored lamps and water plants and flowers jets of water | water plants | of colored metal | tree rules | |||
| 4 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | spurt up | participle | flowers jets of water not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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