Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 145

The tea-pot was standing on the table, but no Elder Tree was growing out of it!

Who acts: tea pot, Elder Tree · What happens: stand, grow out · To what, where: table, pot

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 (tea pot, Elder Tree), 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	4 pot	det
2	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pot	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tea	punct
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 growing	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 growing	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 Tree	det
13	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Tree	compound
14	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 growing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 growing	aux
16	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 standing	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	19 it	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 growing	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the tea pot			the table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
2	grow out	past · progressive	no Elder Tree	pot					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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