Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 88
In the verandah, among the flowers, she and George stood together; the rose-bushes concealed them.
Who acts: Mr., rose bushes · What happens: stand together, conceal · To what, where: verandah, flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr., rose bushes), 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 verandah | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 verandah | det |
| 3 | verandah | verandah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 flowers | punct |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 flowers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flowers | det |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 verandah | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 verandah | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 George | cc |
| 11 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 she | conj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 concealed | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bushes | det |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bushes | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 18 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 concealed | nsubj |
| 19 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 concealed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand together | past | Mr. | the verandah and the flowers | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in verandah=Location | |||
| 2 | conceal | past | the rose bushes | flowers = flower | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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