Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 2

The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food.

Who acts: burdock, delightfulness · What happens: not grow, grow, be · To what, where: one, several, great delight, food

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burdock, delightfulness), 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	2 burdock	det
2	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 grows	advmod
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 grows	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grows	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 grows	cc
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 grows	advmod
10	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grows	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 grows	obj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 grow	advmod
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 grow	advmod
14	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grows	advcl
15	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grow	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 delight	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 delight	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 delight	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 delight	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 delight	amod
21	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 food	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 food	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 delightfulness	det:predet
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 delightfulness	det
26	delightfulness	delightfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 food	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 food	cop
28	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 food	nmod:poss
29	'	's	PART	_	28 snails	case
30	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 delight	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not grow	present	the burdock			alone property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	present	the burdock not said here	one	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
3	grow	present	the burdock not said here	several	there	always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location several=Theme
4	is a	present	burdock	a great delight and snails's food			tree rules
5	is a	present	all delightfulness	snails's food			tree rules

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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