Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 5
She plucks the withered leaf from the balsam, and looks at the grass-covered rampart, on which many children are playing.
Who acts: maid, many children · What happens: pluck, wither, look, cover, play · To what, where: withered leaf, balsam
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 (maid, many children), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 plucks | nsubj |
| 2 | plucks | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leaf | det |
| 4 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 leaf | amod |
| 5 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plucks | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 balsam | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 balsam | det |
| 8 | balsam | balsam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plucks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looks | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looks | cc |
| 11 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 plucks | parataxis |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 rampart | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rampart | det |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 covered | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 grass | punct |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 rampart | amod |
| 17 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looks | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 playing | punct |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 playing | obl |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 children | amod |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 playing | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 playing | aux |
| 24 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 looks | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plucks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | present | maid | the withered leaf | the balsam | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme from balsam=Source | |||
| 2 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | look | present | at the covered rampart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at rampart=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | play | present · progressive | many children | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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