Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 3

In the courtyard was a grass-plot, on which grew a blooming acacia tree (when it was in bloom), and under this tree sat occasionally the finely-dressed nurse, with the still more finely-dressed child of the General--little Emily.

Who acts: grass plot, courtyard · What happens: be, grow, bloom, sit, dress · To what, where: grass plot, courtyard, blooming acacia tree, bloom, dressed nurse, tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass plot, courtyard), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 courtyard	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 courtyard	det
3	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plot	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plot	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plot	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plot	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grass	punct
8	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plot	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
14	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 tree	amod
15	acacia	acacia	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	compound
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obj
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 bloom	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 bloom	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bloom	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bloom	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 bloom	case
22	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	appos
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 bloom	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sat	cc
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 tree	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 tree	det
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	obl
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grew	conj
30	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	29 sat	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 nurse	det
32	finely	finely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dressed	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 finely	punct
34	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 nurse	amod
35	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 child	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	44 child	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 child	det
39	still	still	ADV	_	40 more	advmod
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 finely	advmod
41	finely	finely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dressed	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 finely	punct
43	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 child	amod
44	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	conj
45	of	of	ADP	_	50 Emily	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Emily	det
47	General	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Emily	amod
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	50 Emily	punct
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Emily	amod
50	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 child	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 plot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a grass plot	the courtyard		tree rules
2	grow	past	a grass plot	a blooming acacia tree			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
3	bloom	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	courtyard		bloom		tree rules
5	sit	past	a grass plot not said here	the dressed nurse	this tree	occasionally property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme under tree=Location
6	dress	participle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	dress	participle					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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