Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 1
"Along the margin of the shore stretches a forest of firs and beeches, and fresh and fragrant is this wood; hundreds of nightingales visit it every spring.
Who acts: hundreds · What happens: stretch, be, visit · To what, where: forest, fresh wood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretches | punct |
| 2 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 4 margin | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 margin | det |
| 4 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretches | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shore | det |
| 7 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 margin | nmod |
| 8 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretches | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 firs | case |
| 12 | firs | fir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 forest | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beeches | cc |
| 14 | beeches | beech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 firs | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wood | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wood | cc |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wood | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fragrant | cc |
| 19 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fresh | conj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wood | cop |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stretches | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 visit | punct |
| 24 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 visit | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 nightingales | case |
| 26 | nightingales | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hundreds | nmod |
| 27 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stretches | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 visit | obj |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 spring | det |
| 30 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 visit | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch in a quote | present | a forest of firs and beeches | along the margin of the shore | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forest=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this fresh wood | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | visit in a quote | present | hundreds of nightingales | forest | spring | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
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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