Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 4
He put on the goloshes, and was soon in the garden, which contained only one plum-tree and one apple-tree; yet, in a town, even a small garden like this is a great advantage.
Who acts: sun, garden, this · What happens: put, be, contain · To what, where: goloshes, garden, one plum tree
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 (sun, garden, this), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 goloshes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goloshes | det |
| 5 | goloshes | golosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 garden | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 garden | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 garden | cop |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 garden | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 contained | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 contained | nsubj |
| 15 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 garden | acl:relcl |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 one | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 tree | nummod |
| 18 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 plum | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 contained | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tree | cc |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 tree | nummod |
| 23 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tree | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 apple | punct |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 yet | punct |
| 27 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 put | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 town | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 town | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 town | det |
| 31 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 garden | punct |
| 33 | even | even | ADV | _ | 36 garden | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 garden | det |
| 35 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 garden | amod |
| 36 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 town | appos |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 advantage | case |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 advantage | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 advantage | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 advantage | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 advantage | amod |
| 42 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 garden | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | sun | the goloshes | yet | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on golosh=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | sun not said here | the garden | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | contain | past | the garden | one plum tree and one apple tree | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | this | like a great advantage | 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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