Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 2

The shell grew, and the peas grew, they accommodated themselves to their position, and sat all in a row.

Who acts: shell, peas · What happens: grow, accommodate, sit · To what, where: peas, position, row

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shell, peas), 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 shell	det
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peas	det
7	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 accommodated	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 accommodated	nsubj
11	accommodated	accommodate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 accommodated	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 position	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 position	nmod:poss
15	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 accommodated	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
19	all	all	ADV	_	18 sat	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 row	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 row	det
22	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the shell				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	the peas				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	accommodate	past	peas = pea	peas = pea		to peas's position goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to position=Goal
4	sit	past	the shell not said here		a row	all property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=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: «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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