Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 24
"Scarcely have the violets come forth, but there on the rampart, just opposite the beautiful Castle of Rosenberg, there is a tree bright with the first green buds.
Who acts: violets, tree · What happens: come, be · To what, where: Scarcely, rampart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (violets, tree), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Scarcely | punct |
| 2 | Scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 come | obl |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Scarcely | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 violets | det |
| 5 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 there | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 there | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 come | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rampart | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rampart | det |
| 13 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Castle | punct |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 Castle | advmod |
| 16 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 19 Castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Castle | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Castle | amod |
| 19 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Rosenberg | case |
| 21 | Rosenberg | Rosenberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Castle | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 is | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Castle | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 is | nsubj |
| 27 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tree | amod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 buds | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 buds | det |
| 30 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 buds | amod |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 buds | amod |
| 32 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bright | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | the violets | Scarcely | the rampart; there | opposite the beautiful Castle of Rosenberg; forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rampart=Location | ||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a tree | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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