Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 51
Beyond this delightful region there are immense forests, where the branches of the trees entwine round each other, while prickly, creeping plants cover the paths, and only an elephant could force a passage for himself with his great feet.
Who acts: immense forests, branches, prickly creeping plants, elephant · What happens: be, entwine, creep, cover, force · To what, where: delightful region, paths, passage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (immense forests, branches, prickly creeping plants, elephant), 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 | _ | 4 region | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 region | det |
| 3 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 region | amod |
| 4 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 are | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forests | amod |
| 8 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entwine | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 entwine | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branches | det |
| 12 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 entwine | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 branches | nmod |
| 16 | entwine | entwine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 forests | parataxis |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 16 entwine | obl |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cover | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 cover | mark |
| 22 | prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 plants | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prickly | punct |
| 24 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 plants | amod |
| 25 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cover | nsubj |
| 26 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 entwine | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 paths | det |
| 28 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cover | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 force | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 force | cc |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 elephant | advmod |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 elephant | det |
| 33 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 force | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 force | aux |
| 35 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 cover | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 passage | det |
| 37 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 force | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 himself | case |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 force | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 feet | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 feet | nmod:poss |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 feet | amod |
| 43 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 force | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | immense forests | this delightful region; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond region=Location | ||||
| 2 | entwine | present | the branches of the trees | round each | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | creep | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | cover | present | prickly creeping plants | the paths | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Destination | ||||
| 5 | force | could | a elephant | a passage | for elephant; with elephant's great feet | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Recipient |
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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