Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 7

An elder-tree hangs over the palings; and beneath its branches, at the foot of the paling, is a pool of water, in which a few ducks are disporting themselves.

Who acts: elder tree, few ducks · What happens: hang, be, disport · To what, where: palings, pool, ducks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder tree, few ducks), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 elder	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hangs	nsubj
5	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 palings	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palings	det
8	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hangs	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 branches	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 branches	cc
11	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	13 branches	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 branches	nmod:poss
13	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hangs	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 foot	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 foot	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foot	det
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 branches	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 paling	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 paling	det
20	paling	paling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 foot	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pool	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 pool	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pool	det
24	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hangs	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pool	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 disporting	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 disporting	obl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 ducks	det
31	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ducks	amod
32	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 disporting	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 disporting	aux
34	disporting	disport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 pool	acl
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 disporting	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hangs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	present	a elder tree		the palings	beneath tree's branches	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over paling=Location
2	is a	present		a pool		of water	tree rules
3	disport	present · progressive	a few ducks	ducks = duck	a pool		tree rules

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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