Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 41
Not far from this spot stands the town of Bex, and at every step can be seen an increase of fruitfulness and verdure.
What happens: stand, see · To what, where: town, spot, increase
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: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 stands | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 spot | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 6 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Bex | case |
| 10 | Bex | Bex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 town | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seen | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 step | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 step | det |
| 15 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | obl |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stands | advcl |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 increase | det |
| 20 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fruitfulness | case |
| 22 | fruitfulness | fruitfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 increase | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 verdure | cc |
| 24 | verdure | verdure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 increase | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the town of Bex | this spot | far property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | can · passive | a increase of fruitfulness and verdure | at every step | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: increase=Stimulus |
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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