Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 101
So the tree was completely hidden from sight as if it had never existed. "
What happens: hide, not exist · To what, where: tree, sight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 hidden | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hidden | aux:pass |
| 5 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 6 hidden | advmod |
| 6 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hidden | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 existed | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 existed | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 existed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 existed | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 existed | advmod |
| 14 | existed | exist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hidden | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hidden | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | the tree | sight | completely property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from sight=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | not exist | past · perfect · passive | sight | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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