Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 20
Orange and citron trees grew in the garden, and before the door stood lofty palms.
Who acts: citron trees, door · What happens: grow, stand · To what, where: garden, lofty palms
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (citron trees, door), 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 | Orange | Orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trees | nmod:poss |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 1 Orange | cc |
| 3 | citron | citron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | compound |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 stood | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 15 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 palms | amod |
| 16 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stood | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Orange's citron trees | the garden | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the door | lofty palms | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palm=Stimulus |
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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