Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 49
The object was hidden by two or three great leaves, which covered it like a shield, so that no draught or gust of wind could injure it, and it was carried more carefully than the apple-branch had ever been.
Who acts: two great leaves, draught · What happens: hide, cover, injure, carry, have · To what, where: object
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two great leaves, draught), 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hidden | aux:pass |
| 4 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 leaves | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 leaves | nummod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 three | cc |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 two | conj |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 leaves | amod |
| 10 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hidden | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 covered | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 covered | nsubj |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 covered | obj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 shield | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shield | det |
| 17 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 injure | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 injure | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 draught | det |
| 22 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 injure | nsubj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 gust | cc |
| 24 | gust | gust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 draught | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wind | case |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gust | nmod |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 injure | aux |
| 28 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hidden | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 injure | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 carried | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 carried | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 carried | aux:pass |
| 34 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hidden | conj |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 carefully | advmod |
| 36 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 34 carried | advmod |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 41 branch | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 branch | det |
| 39 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 branch | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 apple | punct |
| 41 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carried | obl |
| 42 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 carried | advcl |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 been | advmod |
| 44 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 had | aux |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | two great leaves | the object | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | two great leaves | object | like a shield | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||
| 3 | injure | could | no draught or gust of wind | object | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | past · passive | object | than the apple branch; carefully property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | participle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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