Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 1
There lived once a great queen, in whose garden were found at all seasons the most splendid flowers, and from every land in the world.
What happens: live, find · To what, where: great queen, land, garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lived | expl |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 lived | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 queen | amod |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lived | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 seasons | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 seasons | det |
| 15 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 flowers | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 splendid | advmod |
| 18 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 flowers | amod |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seasons | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 land | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 land | cc |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 land | det |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 land | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a great queen | every land in the world; there | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme queen=Location | |||
| 2 | find | past · passive | garden | season | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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