Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 33
He pulled up the wonderful plant, roots and all, and placed it in his bundle. "
Who acts: foreigner · What happens: pull up, place · To what, where: wonderful plant, root, bundle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreigner), 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 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 pulled | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plant | det |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plant | amod |
| 6 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 roots | punct |
| 8 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plant | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 all | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 roots | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 placed | cc |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulled | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placed | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bundle | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past | foreigner | the wonderful plant | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | past | foreigner not said here | root | foreigner's bundle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bundle=Destination |
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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