Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 12
The reeds grow to the same height, and bear the same kind of long, purple-brown leaves, with their feathery tips.
Who acts: reeds · What happens: grow, bear · To what, where: same kind
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (reeds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reeds | det |
| 2 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 height | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 height | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 height | amod |
| 7 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grow | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bear | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bear | cc |
| 10 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grow | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kind | amod |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bear | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 leaves | case |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leaves | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 17 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brown | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 purple | punct |
| 19 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leaves | amod |
| 20 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kind | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tips | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 tips | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tips | nmod:poss |
| 24 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tips | amod |
| 25 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bear | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the reeds | to the same height | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | infinitive | the reeds not said here | the same kind of long brown leaves | with reeds's feathery tips | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=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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