Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 5
The little island, on which grew the three acacias, lay at a short distance, looking like a bouquet rising from the lake. "
Who acts: little island · What happens: grow, lay, look, rise · To what, where: three acacias, lake
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little island), 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 island | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 island | amod |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 acacias | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 acacias | nummod |
| 10 | acacias | acacia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 distance | amod |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lay | advcl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 bouquet | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bouquet | det |
| 21 | bouquet | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looking | obl |
| 22 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 looking | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 lake | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lake | det |
| 25 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rising | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the little island | the three acacias | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location acacia=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | the little island not said here | at a short distance | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at distance=Destination | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the little island not said here | like a bouquet | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | rise | gerund | the little island not said here | the lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial_Location |
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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