Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 113

And they stood in a beech-wood that had just put on its first green, where the woodroof [*] at their feet sent forth its fragrance, and the pale-red anemony looked so pretty among the verdure.

Who acts: pictures, feet, pale red anemony · What happens: stand, put, send, look · To what, where: beech wood, feet, fragrance

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pictures, feet, pale red anemony), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 stood	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
6	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 beech	punct
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 put	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 put	advmod
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wood	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 green	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 green	nmod:poss
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 green	amod
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 put	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 woodroof	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 woodroof	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woodroof	det
20	woodroof	woodroof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 green	parataxis
21	[	[	PUNCT	_	22 *	punct
22	*	*	PUNCT	_	20 woodroof	punct
23	]	]	PUNCT	_	20 woodroof	punct
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 feet	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obl
27	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 feet	acl
28	forth	forth	ADV	_	27 sent	advmod
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 fragrance	nmod:poss
30	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looked	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 looked	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 anemony	det
34	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 anemony	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 pale	punct
36	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 anemony	amod
37	anemony	anemony	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 looked	nsubj
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 pretty	advmod
40	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	38 looked	advmod
41	among	among	ADP	_	43 verdure	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 verdure	det
43	verdure	verdure	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 looked	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	pictures = picture		a beech wood		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
2	put	past · perfect · passive		a beech wood	pictures's feet		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at foot=Destination
3	send	participle	pictures's feet not said here	hand's fragrance		forth property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme
4	look	past	the pale red anemony			among the verdure; pretty property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among verdure=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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