Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 95
Over the battle-field a rainbow spread, which touched the forest and the deep marsh.
Who acts: rainbow spread · What happens: touch · To what, where: forest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rainbow spread), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 field | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 battle | punct |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spread | det |
| 7 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | compound |
| 8 | spread | spread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 touched | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 touched | nsubj |
| 11 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touched | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marsh | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 marsh | det |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 marsh | amod |
| 17 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forest | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | a rainbow spread | the forest and the deep marsh | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Co-Theme |
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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