Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 87
Christmas-time drew near, and a peasant who dwelt close by the old wall stuck up a pole with some ears of corn fastened to the top, that the birds of heaven might have feast, and rejoice in the happy, blessed time.
Who acts: Christmas time, peasant, birds · What happens: draw, dwell, stick up, fasten, have, rejoice · To what, where: peasant, corn, feast
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christmas time, peasant, birds), 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 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Christmas | punct |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stuck | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stuck | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 peasant | det |
| 9 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 dwelt | nsubj |
| 11 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 peasant | acl:relcl |
| 12 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 dwelt | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wall | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wall | amod |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dwelt | obl |
| 17 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drew | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 stuck | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pole | det |
| 20 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stuck | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 ears | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 ears | det |
| 23 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stuck | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 corn | case |
| 25 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ears | nmod |
| 26 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 corn | acl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 top | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 top | det |
| 29 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fastened | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 have | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 have | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 birds | det |
| 33 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 have | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 heaven | case |
| 35 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 birds | nmod |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 have | aux |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stuck | conj |
| 38 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 rejoice | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 rejoice | cc |
| 41 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drew | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 time | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 time | det |
| 44 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 time | amod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 happy | punct |
| 46 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 time | amod |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rejoice | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Christmas time | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | a peasant | by the old wall; close property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wall=Location | ||||
| 3 | stick up | participle · passive | a peasant | with some ears of corn | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme pole=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fasten | participle | corn not said here | to the top | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to top=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | might | the birds of heaven | feast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | ||||
| 6 | rejoice | infinitive | Christmas time not said here | time | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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