Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 13
After the branches were lopped off, the trunks looked so slender and bare, that they could scarcely be recognized.
Who acts: trunks · What happens: lop off, look, recognize · To what, where: trunks
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: who acts (trunks), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 branches | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 branches | det |
| 3 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lopped | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lopped | aux:pass |
| 5 | lopped | lop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 lopped | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trunks | det |
| 9 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lopped | parataxis |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 slender | advmod |
| 12 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looked | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bare | cc |
| 14 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 slender | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recognized | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 recognized | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 recognized | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 recognized | aux |
| 19 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 21 recognized | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 recognized | aux:pass |
| 21 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 looked | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lop off | past · passive | after the branches | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the trunks | slender property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | recognize | could · passive | trunks = trunk | scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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