Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 28
These young trees, which were chosen for their beauty, kept their branches, and were also laid on wagons and drawn by horses out of the forest.
Who acts: young trees · What happens: choose, keep, lay, draw · To what, where: young trees, branches, wagons, forest
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 (young trees), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 trees | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trees | amod |
| 3 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | aux:pass |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 trees | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 beauty | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 trees | punct |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 branches | nmod:poss |
| 14 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kept | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laid | cc |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 laid | aux:pass |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 laid | advmod |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 kept | parataxis |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 wagons | case |
| 21 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 laid | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drawn | cc |
| 23 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 laid | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 horses | case |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drawn | obl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drawn | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | this young trees | for tears's beauty | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for beauty=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | this young trees | tears's branches | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | past · passive | wagons | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on wagon=Destination | |||||
| 4 | draw | participle | the forest | by horses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent out forest=Initial_Location |
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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