Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 12
The acacia-trees now overshadow every part of the island.
Who acts: acacia trees · What happens: overshadow · To what, where: part
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 (acacia trees), 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 | 4 trees | det |
| 2 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 acacia | punct |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 overshadow | nsubj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 overshadow | advmod |
| 6 | overshadow | overshadow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overshadow | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 overshadow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overshadow | present | the acacia trees | every part of the island | now | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
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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