Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 25

“Or the burdocks have grown up over it, so that they cannot come out.

Who acts: burdocks, snails · What happens: grow up, not come out · To what, where: house

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 (burdocks, snails), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct
2	Or	or	CCONJ	_	4 burdocks	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 burdocks	det
4	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grown	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grown	aux
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 grown	compound:prt
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grown	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 come	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 come	advmod
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grown	conj
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up in a quote	present · perfect	the burdocks			house			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location
2	not come out in a quote	can	snails = snail					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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