Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 11
Each germ came forth from the deep ground: all that had life raised itself.
Who acts: germ, that, life · What happens: come, have, raise · To what, where: deep ground, life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (germ, that, life), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 germ | det |
| 2 | germ | germ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ground | amod |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 had | det:predet |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 life | acl |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 raised | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | each germ | the deep ground | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | that | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 3 | raise | participle | life not said here | life | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=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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