Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 38
Ah! then we grew on the green boughs, and were as green as they; every morning and evening we were fed with diamond drops of dew.
Who acts: we · What happens: grow, be, feed · To what, where: green boughs, morning
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 (we), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 grew | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 grew | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 boughs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boughs | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boughs | amod |
| 9 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 green | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 green | cc |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 green | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 green | advmod |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 they | case |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 green | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 fed | punct |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 morning | det |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 evening | cc |
| 21 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 morning | conj |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 fed | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fed | aux:pass |
| 24 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 grew | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 drops | case |
| 26 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drops | compound |
| 27 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fed | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 dew | case |
| 29 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drops | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | we | the green boughs | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bough=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | we not said here | as boughs = bough; green property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feed | past · passive | every morning and evening | with diamond drops of dew | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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