Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 42
Therein was written that you were staying in the hot countries, where the coffee grows.
Who acts: you, coffee · What happens: write, stay, grow · To what, where: hot countries
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, coffee), 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 | Therein | therein | ADV | _ | 3 written | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | aux:pass |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 staying | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 staying | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 staying | aux |
| 7 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 written | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 countries | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 countries | det |
| 10 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 countries | amod |
| 11 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 staying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grows | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 grows | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coffee | det |
| 15 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grows | nsubj |
| 16 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 countries | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | therein property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | stay | past · progressive | you | the hot countries | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the coffee | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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