Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 54
Close to where they stood grew a hazel-bush, covered with beautiful nuts.
Who acts: quantities · What happens: stand, grow, cover · To what, where: hazel bush
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quantities), 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 | Close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grew | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 stood | mark |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 stood | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Close | advcl |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bush | det |
| 8 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bush | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hazel | punct |
| 10 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 covered | punct |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bush | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 nuts | case |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nuts | amod |
| 15 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 covered | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | quantities = quantity | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | a hazel bush | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bush=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a hazel bush not said here | with beautiful nuts | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nut=Theme |
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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