Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 51

There stood fine hyacinths under glass bells, and there stood strong-stemmed peonies; there grew water plants, some so fresh, others half sick, the water-snakes lay down on them, and black crabs pinched their stalks.

Who acts: others, black crabs · What happens: stand, stem, grow, lay down, pinch · To what, where: fine hyacinths, glass bells, stemmed peonies, water plants, stalks

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, black crabs), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hyacinths	amod
4	hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 bells	case
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bells	compound
7	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hyacinths	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stood	cc
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stood	advmod
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stemmed	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 strong	punct
14	stemmed	stem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 peonies	amod
15	peonies	peony	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 grew	expl
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plants	compound
20	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grew	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fresh	punct
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 fresh	nsubj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 fresh	advmod
24	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 others	punct
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	nsubj
27	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	28 sick	advmod
28	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 others	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lay	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 snakes	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 snakes	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 water	punct
33	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	nsubj
34	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 lay	advmod
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lay	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 pinched	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 pinched	cc
40	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 crabs	amod
41	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pinched	nsubj
42	pinched	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 stalks	nmod:poss
44	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pinched	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		fine hyacinths	glass bells; there		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hyacinth=Theme under bell=Destination
2	stand	past		stemmed peonies	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peony=Stimulus
3	stem	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past		water plants	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plant=Theme
5	lay down	present	others			on snakes = snake; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination
6	pinch	past	black crabs	snakes's stalks			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Theme

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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