Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 3
It was at this time dark, brown, and ugly, but had originally been formed of blooming olive and laurel branches, brought from beyond the mountains.
Who acts: roof · What happens: be, form, bloom, bring · To what, where: olive, mountains
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brown | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brown | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brown | obl |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brown | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brown | punct |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ugly | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ugly | cc |
| 11 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brown | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 formed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 formed | cc |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 formed | aux |
| 15 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 17 formed | advmod |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 formed | aux:pass |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 brown | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 blooming | mark |
| 19 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 formed | advcl |
| 20 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blooming | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 branches | cc |
| 22 | laurel | laurel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 branches | compound |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 olive | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 olive | acl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 mountains | case |
| 27 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 29 mountains | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mountains | det |
| 29 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 brought | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | roof | time | brown property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | roof not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | form | past · perfect · passive | roof not said here | originally property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | bloom | gerund | roof not said here | olive and laurel branches | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location olive=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | participle | olive and laurel branches not said here | the mountains | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from mountain=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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