Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 11
The surface of the island is rocky; and about a hundred years ago, a lady caused the ground to be covered with earth, in which three acacia-trees were planted, and the whole enclosed with stone walls.
Who acts: surface, lady · What happens: be, cause, cover, plant, enclose · To what, where: ground, three acacia trees, whole
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surface, lady), 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 surface | det |
| 2 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rocky | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 surface | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rocky | cop |
| 7 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ago | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ago | cc |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 hundred | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 rocky | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caused | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caused | nsubj |
| 18 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rocky | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caused | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 covered | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 covered | aux:pass |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 caused | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 covered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 planted | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 planted | obl |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 trees | nummod |
| 30 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 trees | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 acacia | punct |
| 32 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 planted | aux:pass |
| 34 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 covered | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 enclosed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 enclosed | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 whole | det |
| 38 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 enclosed | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 rocky | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 walls | case |
| 41 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 walls | compound |
| 42 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 enclosed | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rocky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the surface of the island | ago, rocky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | a lady | the ground | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ground=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cover | to-infinitive · passive | a lady not said here | with earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with earth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plant | past · passive | three acacia trees | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | |||||
| 5 | enclose | participle | the surface of the island not said here | the whole | with stone walls | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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