Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 59

And now stood there an old peasant-woman, who came from Soroe,* where grass grows in the market-place.

Who acts: old peasant woman, grass · What happens: stand, come, grow · To what, where: old peasant woman, Soroe, market place

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old peasant woman, grass), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 stood	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 peasant	punct
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	acl:relcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Soroe	case
14	Soroe	Soroe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grows	punct
16	*	*	PUNCT	_	19 grows	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 grows	advmod
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grows	nsubj
19	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 place	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 place	det
22	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 place	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 market	punct
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grows	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past		a old peasant woman	there	now	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	a old peasant woman		Soroe		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from soroe=Initial_Location
3	grow	present	grass		the market place		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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