Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 57
Beautiful weeping willows, real products of spring, hung their fresh branches over these lakes like a fresh, green, transparent, and yet screening veil.
Who acts: Beautiful weeping willows · What happens: hang, screen · To what, where: fresh branches, lakes
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 (Beautiful weeping willows), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 willows | amod |
| 2 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 willows | compound |
| 3 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 products | punct |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 products | amod |
| 6 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 willows | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spring | case |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 products | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 willows | punct |
| 10 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 branches | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 branches | amod |
| 13 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hung | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 lakes | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 lakes | det |
| 16 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hung | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 veil | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 veil | det |
| 19 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 veil | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 green | punct |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fresh | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 transparent | punct |
| 23 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fresh | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 screening | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 screening | cc |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 27 screening | advmod |
| 27 | screening | screen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 veil | amod |
| 28 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lakes | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | Beautiful weeping willows and real products of spring | willows's fresh branches | this lakes like a fresh screening veil | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over lake=Destination | |||
| 2 | screen | gerund | yet | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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