Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 41

It grew there in the corner of a little miserable court-yard; and under it sat, of an afternoon, in the most splendid sunshine, two old people; an old, old seaman, and his old, old wife.

Who acts: Dryad · What happens: grow, sit · To what, where: corner

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 (Dryad), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 grew	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 corner	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corner	det
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	13 yard	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 yard	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yard	amod
10	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yard	amod
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 yard	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 court	punct
13	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corner	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 sat	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 afternoon	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 afternoon	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 afternoon	det
22	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sunshine	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 sunshine	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sunshine	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 splendid	advmod
27	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sunshine	amod
28	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 people	punct
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 people	nummod
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 people	amod
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sunshine	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 seaman	punct
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 seaman	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 seaman	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 old	punct
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 seaman	amod
38	seaman	seaman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wife	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 wife	cc
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 wife	nmod:poss
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 wife	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 old	punct
44	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 wife	amod
45	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seaman	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Dryad			the corner of a little miserable court yard; there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location
2	sit	past	Dryad				afternoon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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