Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 6
Here and there stood an apple or a plum-tree; but for this, nobody would have thought the place had ever been a garden.
Who acts: place · What happens: stand, think, have, be · To what, where: apple, nobody, garden
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 (place), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 there | cc |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Here | conj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 apple | det |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 tree | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 plum | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 apple | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 but | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 but | punct |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 thought | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thought | aux |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | obj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 place | acl |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 garden | advmod |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 garden | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a apple or a plum tree | here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | would · perfect · passive | nobody | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme place=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the place not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | participle | a garden | ever | 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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