Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 163
Martha strewed sand on the grave and planted a rose-tree upon it, and the boy stood by her side.
Who acts: Martha, boy · What happens: strew, plant, stand · To what, where: sand, grave, rose tree, tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martha, boy), 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 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 strewed | nsubj |
| 2 | strewed | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 strewed | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 grave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grave | det |
| 6 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 strewed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 planted | cc |
| 8 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 strewed | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 planted | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 planted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stood | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 strewed | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 strewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strew | past | Martha | sand | the grave | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sand=Theme on grave=Destination | |||
| 2 | plant | past | Martha not said here | a rose tree | tree | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme upon it=Destination | |||
| 3 | stand | past | the boy | by Martha's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
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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