Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 53

There were large trees in small pots, so that they stood so stunted in growth, and ready to burst the pots; in other places, there was a little dull flower in rich mould, with moss round about it, and it was so petted and nursed.

Who acts: large trees, trees · What happens: be, stand, stunt, burst, pet, nurse · To what, where: small pots, growth, pots, little dull flower, rich mould, pot

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 (large trees, trees), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	advcl
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pots	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pots	amod
7	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 stood	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 stunted	advmod
14	stunted	stunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 stood	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 growth	case
16	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stunted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ready	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ready	cc
19	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stood	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 burst	mark
21	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ready	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pots	det
23	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 burst	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 flower	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 places	case
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 places	amod
27	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 was	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 places	punct
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 flower	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 flower	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 flower	amod
33	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 flower	amod
34	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 mould	case
36	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mould	amod
37	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flower	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 moss	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 moss	case
40	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flower	conj
41	round	round	ADV	_	40 moss	advmod
42	about	about	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 moss	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 petted	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 petted	cc
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 petted	nsubj:pass
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 petted	aux:pass
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 petted	advmod
49	petted	pet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 stood	parataxis
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 nursed	cc
51	nursed	nurse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 petted	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	large trees		small pots; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pot=Location
2	stand	past	trees = tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stunt	participle	trees = tree not said here		growth	tree rules
4	burst	to-infinitive	trees = tree not said here	the pots		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme
5	is a	past		a little dull flower and moss about moss	rich mould	tree rules
6	pet	past · passive		pot		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
7	nurse	participle				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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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