Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 28

The children's parents had large wooden boxes there, in which vegetables for the kitchen were planted, and little rosetrees besides: there was a rose in each box, and they grew splendidly.

Who acts: parents, rosetrees besides · What happens: have, plant, be, grow · To what, where: large wooden boxes, vegetables, rose, box

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, rosetrees besides), 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 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 parents	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 children	case
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boxes	amod
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boxes	amod
8	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 had	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 planted	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 planted	obl
13	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 planted	nsubj:pass
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 kitchen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kitchen	det
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vegetables	nmod
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 planted	aux:pass
18	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rose	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rose	cc
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rosetrees	amod
22	rosetrees	rosetree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 besides	compound
23	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rose	nsubj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 rose	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rose	det
28	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 planted	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 box	case
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 box	det
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rose	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grew	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 grew	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 grew	nsubj
35	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 planted	conj
36	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	35 grew	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the children's parents	large wooden boxes	there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient
2	plant	past · passive		vegetables for the kitchen			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination
3	is a	past	rosetrees besides	a rose	each box		tree rules
4	grow	past	parents = parent			splendidly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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