Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 8
The brook which rolled from it near our house, was also sacred.
Who acts: brook · What happens: roll, be · To what, where: brook
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 (brook), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brook | det |
| 2 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sacred | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 rolled | nsubj |
| 4 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brook | acl:relcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rolled | obl |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rolled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brook | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sacred | cop |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 sacred | advmod |
| 13 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sacred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | the brook | brook | near our house | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | past | the brook | sacred property | 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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