Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 34
The road passed through a grove of olive-trees; it reminded the student of the willow-trees at home.
Who acts: road · What happens: pass, remind · To what, where: grove, student
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 grove | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 grove | det |
| 6 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 8 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 olive | punct |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grove | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 reminded | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reminded | nsubj |
| 13 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 student | det |
| 15 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reminded | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trees | det |
| 18 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trees | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 willow | punct |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 student | nmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trees | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the road | a grove of olive trees | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through grove=Location | ||||
| 2 | remind speech: other | past | road | the student of the willow trees at home | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent student=Recipient |
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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