Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 15
The little party walked slowly from this place to Montreux, passing the sun-lit walls with which the vineyards of the little mountain town of Montreux are surrounded, and peasants' houses, overshadowed by fig-trees, with gardens in which grow the laurel and the cypress.
Who acts: little party, fig trees, gardens · What happens: walk, pass, lit, surround, overshadow, grow · To what, where: place, lit walls, vineyards, houses, laurel
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 (little party, fig trees, gardens), 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 | 3 party | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 party | amod |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Montreux | case |
| 10 | Montreux | Montreux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 passing | punct |
| 12 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walked | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 walls | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lit | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sun | punct |
| 16 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 walls | amod |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 passing | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 surrounded | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vineyards | det |
| 21 | vineyards | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 town | amod |
| 25 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 town | compound |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vineyards | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Montreux | case |
| 28 | Montreux | Montreux | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 town | nmod |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 30 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 walls | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 overshadowed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 overshadowed | cc |
| 33 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 houses | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 33 peasants | case |
| 35 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 overshadowed | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 overshadowed | punct |
| 37 | overshadowed | overshadow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 walked | conj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 trees | case |
| 39 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 trees | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 fig | punct |
| 41 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 overshadowed | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 gardens | punct |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 gardens | case |
| 44 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 overshadowed | obl |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 which | case |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 grow | nsubj |
| 47 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 gardens | acl:relcl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 laurel | det |
| 49 | laurel | laurel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 grow | obj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 cypress | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 cypress | det |
| 52 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 laurel | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the little party | this place to Montreux | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pass | gerund | the little party not said here | the lit walls | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | surround | present · passive | the vineyards of the little mountain town of Montreux | with the lit walls | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | overshadow | participle · passive | fig trees | peasants's houses | with gardens | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with garden=Instrument | |||
| 6 | grow | present | gardens | the laurel and the cypress | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location laurel=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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