Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 1
In the forest, high up on the steep shore, and not far from the open seacoast, stood a very old oak-tree.
What happens: stand · To what, where: old oak tree, forest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 up | punct |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 up | amod |
| 6 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forest | appos |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 9 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shore | amod |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 up | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seacoast | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seacoast | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 seacoast | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 seacoast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seacoast | det |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seacoast | amod |
| 18 | seacoast | seacoast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forest | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 forest | punct |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 old | advmod |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tree | amod |
| 24 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tree | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 oak | punct |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a old oak tree | the forest and the open seacoast | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in forest=Destination |
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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