Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 24
She planted by the statue a rose-colored weeping willow.
Who acts: sun · What happens: plant, color · To what, where: colored weeping willow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 planted | nsubj |
| 2 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 statue | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statue | det |
| 5 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 planted | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 willow | det |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 colored | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 9 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 willow | amod |
| 10 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 willow | compound |
| 11 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 planted | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | participle | sun | a colored weeping willow | by the statue | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by statue=Destination | |||
| 2 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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