Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 57
All around were beautiful green meadows, where hart and hind played in the grass.
What happens: be, play · To what, where: beautiful green meadows, hart, grass
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 2 around | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 meadows | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 meadows | cop |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meadows | amod |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meadows | amod |
| 6 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 played | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 played | advmod |
| 9 | hart | hart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 played | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hind | cc |
| 11 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hart | conj |
| 12 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 meadows | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 grass | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 grass | det |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 played | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 meadows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | beautiful green meadows | around property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | participle · passive | hart and hind | the grass | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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