Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 18
The withered oak leaf in the book here recalled the friend, the schoolfellow, who was to be his friend for life.
Who acts: withered oak leaf, schoolfellow · What happens: wither, recall, be · To what, where: friend
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (withered oak leaf, schoolfellow), 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 | 4 leaf | det |
| 2 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 leaf | amod |
| 3 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | compound |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recalled | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | nmod |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 recalled | advmod |
| 9 | recalled | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recalled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 schoolfellow | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 schoolfellow | det |
| 14 | schoolfellow | schoolfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friend | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 friend | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 friend | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 friend | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 friend | cop |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 schoolfellow | appos |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 friend | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 recalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | recall | past | the withered oak leaf in the book | the friend and the schoolfellow | here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the schoolfellow | many's friend | for life | tree rules |
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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