Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 203

The painter who had drawn the rose-bush near the ruined house, had afterwards obtained permission to dig it up, and had given it to the architect, for finer roses had never been seen.

Who acts: painter · What happens: draw, ruin, obtain, dig up, give, not see · To what, where: rose bush, ruined house, painter, permission, architect, finer roses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (painter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painter	det
2	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obtained	nsubj:pass
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 drawn	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drawn	aux
5	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 painter	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bush	det
7	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bush	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 rose	punct
9	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drawn	obj
10	near	near	ADP	_	13 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
12	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 house	amod
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bush	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 painter	punct
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 obtained	aux
16	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	17 obtained	advmod
17	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obtained	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 dig	mark
20	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 permission	acl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dig	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 dig	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 given	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 given	cc
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 obtained	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 given	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 architect	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 architect	det
30	architect	architect	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 roses	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 roses	case
33	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 roses	amod
34	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 seen	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 seen	aux
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 seen	advmod
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 seen	aux:pass
38	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 given	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past · perfect	the painter	the rose bush		the ruined house		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Theme
2	ruin	participle						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	obtain	past · perfect · passive		the painter			afterwards property	tree rules
4	dig up	to-infinitive		permission				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	give	past · perfect		permission	the architect			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to architect=Recipient
6	not see	past · perfect · passive		finer roses				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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