Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 25
Every year this tree sends forth fresh green shoots.
Who acts: tree · What happens: send · To what, where: fresh green shoots
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 (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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | nsubj |
| 5 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 sends | advmod |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shoots | amod |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shoots | amod |
| 9 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sends | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | this tree | fresh green shoots | year | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoot=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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