Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 4
A Hun's Grave lies there, and the sloe and blackthorn grow luxuriantly among the stones.
Who acts: Grave, sloe · What happens: lie, grow · To what, where: stones
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 (Grave, sloe), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Hun | det |
| 2 | Hun | Hun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Grave | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Hun | case |
| 4 | Grave | Grave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | nsubj |
| 5 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lies | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grow | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grow | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sloe | det |
| 10 | sloe | sloe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grow | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blackthorn | cc |
| 12 | blackthorn | blackthorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sloe | conj |
| 13 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lies | parataxis |
| 14 | luxuriantly | luxuriantly | ADV | _ | 13 grow | advmod |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 stones | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stones | det |
| 17 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grow | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a Hun's Grave | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | the sloe and blackthorn | the stones | luxuriantly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among stone=Location |
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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