Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 35
Nothing was to be seen but an open meadow, surrounded by a few bushes, through which ran a broad canal or stream.
Who acts: few bushes · What happens: see, surround, run · To what, where: Nothing, open meadow, broad canal
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few bushes), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 seen | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 surrounded | cc |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 meadow | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meadow | amod |
| 9 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 surrounded | punct |
| 11 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seen | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 bushes | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bushes | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bushes | amod |
| 15 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 surrounded | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 canal | det |
| 21 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 canal | amod |
| 22 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 stream | cc |
| 24 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 canal | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | Nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | surround | participle · passive | a few bushes | a open meadow | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | a broad canal or stream | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme canal=Trajectory |
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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