Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 5

Here and there stood an apple and a plum-tree, or else one never would have thought that it was a garden; all was burdocks, and there lived the two last venerable old snails.

Who acts: house · What happens: stand, not think, be, live · To what, where: apple, garden, burdocks, two last venerable old snails

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 (house), 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	4 stood	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 there	cc
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Here	conj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 apple	det
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tree	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
9	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 plum	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apple	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 one	cc
14	else	else	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stood	obl
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 thought	advmod
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 thought	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 thought	aux
19	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 one	acl:relcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 garden	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 garden	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 garden	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 garden	det
24	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thought	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 burdocks	punct
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 burdocks	det
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 burdocks	cop
28	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lived	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lived	cc
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 lived	advmod
32	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 snails	det
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 snails	nummod
35	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 snails	amod
36	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 snails	amod
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 snails	amod
38	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lived	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a apple and a plum tree	here	one obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus
2	not think speech: other	would · perfect					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	house	a garden			tree rules
4	is a	past		all burdocks			tree rules
5	live	past		the two last venerable old snails	there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme snail=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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