Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 49
As soon as night came on, she slipped out of the house, and went into the wood, to the spot where the linden-tree stood; and after removing the leaves from the earth, she turned it up, and there found him who had been murdered.
Who acts: girl, linden tree · What happens: come on, slip out, go, stand, remove, turn up · To what, where: house, wood, leaves, earth, tree, leaf · 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 (girl, linden 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slipped | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 slipped | nsubj |
| 9 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slipped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spot | punct |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 spot | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spot | det |
| 23 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 stood | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 26 | linden | linden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tree | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 linden | punct |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | nsubj |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spot | acl:relcl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 turned | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 turned | cc |
| 32 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 33 removing | mark |
| 33 | removing | remove | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 turned | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 leaves | det |
| 35 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 removing | obj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 earth | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 earth | det |
| 38 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 removing | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 removing | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 turned | nsubj |
| 41 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 turned | obj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 turned | compound:prt |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 found | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 found | cc |
| 46 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 47 found | expl |
| 47 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 found | obj |
| 49 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 murdered | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 murdered | aux |
| 51 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 52 murdered | aux:pass |
| 52 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 found | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | night | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slip out | past | girl | the house | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the wood | to the spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location to spot=Destination | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the linden tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | remove | gerund | girl not said here | the leaves | the earth | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme from earth=Source | |||
| 6 | turn up | past | girl | tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find | past | leaf | there | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | murder | past · perfect · passive | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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