Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 4

Now, there was an old manor-house, where they no longer ate snails, they were quite extinct; but the burdocks were not extinct, they grew and grew all over the walks and all the beds; they could not get the mastery over them--it was a whole forest of burdocks.

Who acts: old manor house, seeds, burdocks, burdock · What happens: be, eat, not be, grow, not get · To what, where: snails, walks, mastery, whole forest

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 (old manor house, seeds, burdocks, burdock), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 was	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
7	manor	manor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 manor	punct
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ate	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 ate	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ate	nsubj
13	no	no	ADV	_	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 ate	advmod
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	parataxis
16	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ate	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 extinct	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 extinct	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 extinct	cop
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 extinct	advmod
21	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ate	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 extinct	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 extinct	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 burdocks	det
25	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 extinct	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 extinct	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 extinct	advmod
28	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 extinct	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grew	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 grew	nsubj
31	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 extinct	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 grew	cc
33	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 grew	conj
34	all	all	ADV	_	37 walks	advmod
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 walks	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 walks	det
37	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 grew	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 beds	cc
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 beds	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 beds	det
41	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 walks	conj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 get	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 get	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 get	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 get	advmod
46	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 grew	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 mastery	det
48	mastery	mastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	obj
49	over	over	ADP	_	50 them	case
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 get	obl
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 forest	punct
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 forest	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 forest	cop
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 forest	det
55	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 forest	amod
56	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 get	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 burdocks	case
58	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 forest	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old manor house		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	seeds = seed	snails			long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Patient
3	is	past	seeds = seed				extinct property	tree rules
4	not is	past	the burdocks				extinct property	tree rules
5	grow	past	seeds = seed					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	grow	past	seeds = seed not said here	the walks and all beds				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location walk=Theme
7	not get	could	seeds = seed	the mastery			over snails = snail	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mastery=Stimulus
8	is a	past	burdock	a whole forest			of burdocks	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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