Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 39

But she propped up with the little stick the green plant which had given her child such pleasant hopes of life, so that it might not be broken by the winds; she tied the piece of string to the window-sill and to the upper part of the frame, so that the pea-tendrils might twine round it when it shot up.

Who acts: mother, green plant, winds, pea tendrils, plant, life · What happens: prop up, give, not break, tie, twine, shoot up · To what, where: child, plant, piece

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 (mother, green plant, winds, pea tendrils), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 propped	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 propped	nsubj
3	propped	prop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 propped	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 stick	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stick	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stick	amod
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 propped	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plant	det
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plant	amod
11	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	appos
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 given	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 given	aux
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 plant	acl:relcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 given	obj
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hopes	amod
18	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hopes	amod
19	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 child	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 life	case
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hopes	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 broken	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 broken	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 broken	nsubj:pass
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 broken	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 broken	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 broken	aux:pass
29	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 given	parataxis
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 winds	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 winds	det
32	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 broken	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 tied	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tied	nsubj
35	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 propped	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 piece	det
37	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tied	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 string	case
39	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 piece	nmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	44 sill	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sill	det
42	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sill	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 window	punct
44	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tied	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 part	cc
46	to	to	ADP	_	49 part	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 part	det
48	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 part	amod
49	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sill	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 frame	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 frame	det
52	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 part	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 twine	punct
54	so	so	SCONJ	_	61 twine	mark
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	61 twine	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 tendrils	det
57	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 tendrils	compound
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 pea	punct
59	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 twine	nsubj
60	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 twine	aux
61	twine	twine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 tied	conj
62	round	round	ADP	_	63 it	case
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 twine	obl
64	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	66 shot	advmod
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 shot	nsubj
66	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 twine	advcl
67	up	up	ADP	_	66 shot	compound:prt
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 propped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prop up	past	mother			with the little stick	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	give	past · perfect	the green plant	mother's child and such pleasant hopes of life			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	not break	might · passive	the winds	plant			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient
4	tie	past	mother	the piece of string		to the window sill and the upper part of the frame	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient to sill=Co-Patient
5	twine	might	the pea tendrils		plant		vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Destination
6	shoot up	past	plant				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hope		life				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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