Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 54

Around the nicest green meads, where the deer were playing in the grass, grew magnificent oaks and beeches; and if the bark of one of the trees was cracked, there grass and long creeping plants grew in the crevices.

Who acts: deer, nicest green meads, grass · What happens: play, grow, crack, creep · To what, where: grass, magnificent oaks, bark, crevices

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, nicest green meads, grass), 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	Around	around	ADP	_	5 meads	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meads	det
3	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 meads	amod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meads	amod
5	meads	mead	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grew	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 playing	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 playing	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deer	det
9	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 playing	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 playing	aux
11	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 meads	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 playing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 meads	punct
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 oaks	amod
18	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grew	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 beeches	cc
20	beeches	beech	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 oaks	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 cracked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cracked	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 cracked	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bark	det
25	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cracked	nsubj:pass
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 one	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 bark	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 trees	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trees	det
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cracked	aux:pass
32	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 grew	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 grew	punct
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	40 grew	expl
35	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 grew	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 plants	cc
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 plants	amod
38	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 plants	amod
39	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 grass	conj
40	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cracked	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 crevices	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 crevices	det
43	crevices	crevice	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 grew	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	the deer		the grass	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	the nicest green meads	magnificent oaks and beeches		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oak=Theme
3	crack a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the bark of one of the trees		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	creep	gerund				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	past	grass and long creeping plants		the crevices; there	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crevice=Location

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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