Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 125

He was just married, and had come, with his young wife, to reside in the new house with the garden in front of it, and now he stood there by her side while she planted a field flower that she thought very pretty.

Who acts: boy, garden · What happens: marry, come, reside, stand, plant, think · To what, where: boy, new house, field flower

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, garden), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	aux:pass
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 married	advmod
4	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 married	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wife	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 wife	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wife	amod
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reside	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reside	mark
16	reside	reside	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 house	amod
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reside	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 garden	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 garden	det
23	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 front	case
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reside	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 front	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stood	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stood	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 stood	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stood	nsubj
32	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 married	conj
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 stood	advmod
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 side	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 side	nmod:poss
36	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stood	obl
37	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 planted	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 planted	nsubj
39	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stood	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 flower	det
41	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flower	compound
42	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 planted	obj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 thought	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 thought	nsubj
45	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 planted	advcl
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 pretty	advmod
47	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	45 thought	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		boy				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	come	past · perfect					with boy's young wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reside	to-infinitive			the new house with the garden		in front of front	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
4	stand	past	boy		there	now	by garden's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
5	plant	past	garden	a field flower				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
6	think speech: other	past	garden				pretty property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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