Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 116
The roofs were gayly painted, and before each house was a flower garden, which separated it from the macadamized high-road.
Who acts: flower garden · What happens: paint, be, separate, macadamize · To what, where: roofs, flower garden, roof
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 (flower garden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roofs | det |
| 2 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 painted | aux:pass |
| 4 | gayly | gayly | ADV | _ | 5 painted | advmod |
| 5 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 garden | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 garden | cc |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 garden | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 13 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | compound |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 painted | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 separated | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 separated | nsubj |
| 17 | separated | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 garden | acl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 separated | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 21 | macadamized | macadamize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 road | amod |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 road | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 high | punct |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 separated | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · passive | the roofs | gayly property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a flower garden | before each house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | separate | past | a flower garden | roof | from the macadamized high road | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from road=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | macadamize | participle | 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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