Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 22
Here is a foreign hothouse plant, too tender for the gardens of the North.
Who acts: foreign hothouse plant · What happens: be
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 (foreign hothouse plant), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plant | det |
| 4 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plant | amod |
| 5 | hothouse | hothouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plant | compound |
| 6 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tender | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 tender | advmod |
| 9 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plant | amod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 gardens | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gardens | det |
| 12 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tender | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 North | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 North | det |
| 15 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gardens | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a foreign hothouse plant | here property | 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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