Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 16
And certainly there was plenty of evil in store for the flax.
Who acts: plenty · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 was | cc |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 evil | case |
| 7 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plenty | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 store | case |
| 9 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 evil | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 flax | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flax | det |
| 12 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 store | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | plenty of evil in store for the flax | there | certainly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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