Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 5
A blue gentian grew in his path, and he crushed it with the butt end of his gun.
Who acts: blue gentian, gentian · What happens: grow, crush · To what, where: path
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue gentian, gentian), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gentian | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gentian | amod |
| 3 | gentian | gentian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 path | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 path | nmod:poss |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crushed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crushed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crushed | nsubj |
| 11 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crushed | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 15 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | compound |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crushed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gun | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gun | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | a blue gentian | gentian's path | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in path=Location | ||||
| 2 | crush | past | gentian | path | with the butt end of gentian's gun | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with end=Instrument |
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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