Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 28
Here is a little snowdrop out of the solitary wood; here is an evergreen from the flower-pot at the tavern; and here is a simple blade of grass.
Who acts: little snowdrop · 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 (little snowdrop), 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 | 5 snowdrop | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 snowdrop | amod |
| 5 | snowdrop | snowdrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 9 | solitary | solitary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wood | compound |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 snowdrop | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Here | advmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 evergreen | det |
| 15 | evergreen | evergreen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 pot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pot | det |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pot | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 flower | punct |
| 20 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 evergreen | nmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 tavern | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tavern | det |
| 23 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pot | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 here | cc |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Here | conj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 blade | det |
| 29 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 blade | amod |
| 30 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 grass | case |
| 32 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blade | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a little snowdrop out the solitary wood | here | 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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