Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 36
Their genealogical tree, that is, a large pine-tree from which they had been cut, was at one time a large, old tree in the wood.
Who acts: genealogical tree · What happens: be, cut · To what, where: large pine tree, trees
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genealogical 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tree | nmod:poss |
| 2 | genealogical | genealogical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tree | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tree | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tree | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 10 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pine | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 cut | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cut | aux:pass |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tree | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | cop |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 time | nummod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tree | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 large | punct |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tree | amod |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 time | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 wood | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wood | det |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tree | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | matches's genealogical tree | a large pine tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | past · perfect · passive | trees = tree | a large pine tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from which=Material | ||||
| 3 | is | past | at one time | a large old tree in the wood nmod | 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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