Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 14
At the other end of the garden, he knew there was an arbor, overgrown with beautiful honey-suckles.
Who acts: elf, arbor · What happens: know, be, overgrow · To what, where: other end, arbor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf, arbor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:2006): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 end | amod |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | _ | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 arbor | det |
| 14 | arbor | arbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overgrown | punct |
| 16 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 arbor | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 suckles | case |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 suckles | amod |
| 19 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 suckles | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 honey | punct |
| 21 | suckles | suckle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 overgrown | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | elf | at the other end of the garden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a arbor | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | overgrow | participle | a arbor not said here | with beautiful honey suckles | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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