Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 191
The bed of the river was covered with the loveliest flowers and sweet fresh grass.
What happens: cover · To what, where: bed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 river | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bed | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 covered | aux:pass |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 flowers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flowers | det |
| 10 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 flowers | amod |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 covered | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grass | cc |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grass | amod |
| 14 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grass | amod |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flowers | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the bed of the river | with the loveliest flowers and sweet fresh grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flower=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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