Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 52

There stood beautiful palm-trees, oaks, and plantains; there stood parsley and flowering thyme: every tree and every flower had its name; each of them was a human life, the human frame still lived--one in China, and another in Greenland--round about in the world.

Who acts: flower, each, human frame, thyme · What happens: stand, flower, have, be, live, name · To what, where: beautiful palm trees, Greenland, parsley, name, human life

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 (flower, each, human frame, thyme), 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	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
4	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trees	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 palm	punct
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oaks	punct
8	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trees	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 plantains	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 plantains	cc
11	plantains	plantain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 stood	expl
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
15	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thyme	cc
17	flowering	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 thyme	amod
18	thyme	thyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 parsley	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 tree	punct
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 flower	det
24	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 name	nmod:poss
27	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 life	punct
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 life	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 each	nmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 life	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 life	det
34	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 life	amod
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 frame	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 frame	det
38	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 frame	amod
39	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 life	conj
40	still	still	ADV	_	41 lived	advmod
41	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 frame	acl:relcl
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 one	punct
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 life	parataxis
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 China	case
45	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 one	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Greenland	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 Greenland	cc
48	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	50 Greenland	det
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 Greenland	case
50	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
52	round	round	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
53	about	about	ADP	_	56 world	case
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 world	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 world	det
56	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		beautiful palm trees and oaks	another Greenland; there		about the world; every tree obl; round property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in greenland=Destination
2	stand	past		parsley and flowering thyme	there			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parsley=Stimulus
3	flower	gerund						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	every flower	thyme's name				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
5	is a	past	each	a human life and the human frame				tree rules
6	live	past	the human frame not said here			still		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	name		thyme					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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