Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 82
Beyond this stood her house, in the centre of a strange forest, in which all the trees and flowers were polypi, half animals and half plants; they looked like serpents with a hundred heads growing out of the ground.
Who acts: this, centre, trees, hundred heads · What happens: stand, be, look, grow out · To what, where: house, centre, polypi, ground
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 (this, centre, trees, hundred heads), 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 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 looked | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 centre | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 centre | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 centre | det |
| 9 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 forest | amod |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 centre | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 polypi | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 polypi | nsubj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 trees | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trees | det |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 polypi | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flowers | cc |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 trees | conj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 polypi | cop |
| 23 | polypi | polypi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 centre | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 animals | punct |
| 25 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 26 animals | compound |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 polypi | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 plants | cc |
| 28 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 29 plants | compound |
| 29 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 polypi | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 looked | nsubj |
| 32 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 serpents | case |
| 34 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 looked | obl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 heads | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 hundred | det |
| 37 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 heads | nummod |
| 38 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 serpents | nmod |
| 39 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 heads | acl |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 ground | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 ground | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ground | det |
| 43 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 growing | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | this | mermaid's house | the centre of a strange forest | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in centre=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the centre of a strange forest | polypi and half animals and half plants | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | trees = tree | like serpents with hundred heads | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | grow out | gerund | hundred heads not said here | the ground | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ground=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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