Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 106
Here he found a walk over-shadowed with large walnut-trees, and their thick foliage formed a pleasant shade.
Who acts: river, thick foliage · What happens: find, over-shadow, form · To what, where: walk, pleasant shade
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, thick foliage), 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 | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 walk | det |
| 5 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | over-shadowed | over-shadow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 walk | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 trees | case |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trees | amod |
| 9 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trees | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 walnut | punct |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 over-shadowed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 formed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 formed | cc |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 foliage | nmod:poss |
| 15 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 foliage | amod |
| 16 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 formed | nsubj |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 shade | det |
| 19 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shade | amod |
| 20 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 formed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | river | a walk | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Topic | |||
| 2 | over-shadow | participle | a walk not said here | with large walnut trees | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | past | trees's thick foliage | a pleasant shade | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shade=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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