Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 3
A burdock never grows alone; where it grows, there are many more, and it is a splendid sight; and all this splendor is good for snails.
Who acts: burdock, many more, splendor · What happens: not grow, grow, be · To what, where: splendid sight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burdock, many more, splendor), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 burdock | det |
| 2 | burdock | burdock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 grows | advmod |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 grows | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 grows | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 grows | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grows | nsubj |
| 9 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grows | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 grows | conj |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 more | amod |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 are | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sight | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sight | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sight | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sight | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sight | det |
| 20 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sight | amod |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grows | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 good | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 good | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 splendor | det:predet |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 splendor | det |
| 26 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 good | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 good | cop |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grows | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 snails | case |
| 30 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 good | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | present | a burdock | alone property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | burdock | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | present | many more | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | burdock | a splendid sight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | all splendor | for snails; good property | 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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