Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 136

So there they both sat, like a king and a queen, under the fragrant tree, that looked exactly like an elder: the old man told his wife the story of “Old Nanny,” as it had been told him when a boy.

Who acts: flowers, that, old man, boy · What happens: sit, look, tell · To what, where: fragrant tree, elder, story, wife, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (flowers, that, old man, boy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 sat	expl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 king	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 queen	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 queen	det
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 king	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tree	punct
14	under	under	ADP	_	17 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
16	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tree	amod
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 looked	nsubj
20	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tree	conj
21	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	24 elder	advmod
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 elder	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 elder	det
24	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looked	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	iobj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 story	det
33	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 told	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 Nanny	case
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 Nanny	punct
36	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Nanny	amod
37	Nanny	Nanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 story	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 told	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 told	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 told	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 told	aux:pass
44	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 told	ccomp
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 told	iobj
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	48 boy	advmod
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 boy	det
48	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 told	obl:agent
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	flowers = flower			the fragrant tree; there	like a king and a queen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
2	look	past	that	a elder				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme elder=Attribute
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old man	the story of Old Nanny	man's wife			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	a boy	story	man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient he=Topic

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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