Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 20

And there was a parlour, and a bedchamber, and a kitchen; and behind the cottage there was a little garden, planted with all sorts of flowers and fruits; and there was a courtyard behind, full of ducks and chickens.

Who acts: parlour · What happens: be, plant, sort · To what, where: cottage, little garden, courtyard, flowers

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parlour), 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 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 parlour	det
5	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bedchamber	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bedchamber	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bedchamber	det
9	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parlour	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kitchen	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kitchen	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kitchen	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parlour	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 cottage	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cottage	cc
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 cottage	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cottage	det
18	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	obl
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cottage	acl:relcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 garden	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 garden	amod
23	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 planted	punct
25	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 garden	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 sorts	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 sorts	det
28	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 planted	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sorts	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fruits	cc
32	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 flowers	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 courtyard	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 was	cc
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 was	expl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 courtyard	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 courtyard	det
38	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cottage	conj
39	behind	behind	ADV	_	38 courtyard	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 full	punct
41	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 courtyard	amod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 ducks	case
43	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 full	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 chickens	cc
45	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 ducks	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a parlour and a bedchamber and a kitchen		the cottage and a courtyard; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind cottage=Location
2	plant	participle		a little garden not said here		with all sorts of flowers and fruits	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sort=Instrument
3	is a	past	a parlour and a bedchamber and a kitchen not said here	a courtyard		behind property	tree rules
4	sort			flowers and fruits			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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