Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 24

Here stood old flower-pots with faces and asses' ears, and the flowers grew just as they liked.

Who acts: flowers · What happens: stand, grow, like · To what, where: old flower pots

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pots	amod
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pots	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 flower	punct
6	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 faces	case
8	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ears	cc
10	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ears	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 asses	case
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 faces	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flowers	det
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
18	just	just	ADV	_	21 liked	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 liked	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 liked	nsubj
21	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grew	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		old flower pots	here	with faces and asses's ears	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Stimulus
2	grow	past	the flowers				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	past	flowers = flower				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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