Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 3
The hedges of rose-bush were old, and the flowers were faded.
Who acts: hedges · What happens: be, fade · To what, where: flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hedges), 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 hedges | det |
| 2 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 old | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bush | case |
| 4 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bush | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
| 6 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hedges | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 old | cop |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 faded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 faded | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flowers | det |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 faded | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 faded | aux:pass |
| 14 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 old | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hedges of rose bush | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fade | past · passive | the flowers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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