Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 68
Near the green lawn the father's walking-stick was tied to a post.
What happens: tie · To what, where: walking stick, green lawn
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: 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 4 lawn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lawn | det |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lawn | amod |
| 4 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stick | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stick | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 walking | punct |
| 10 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tied | aux:pass |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 post | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 post | det |
| 15 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past · passive | the father's walking stick | the green lawn | to a post | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to post=Co-Patient |
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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