Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 15

Here stood a quaintly carved cupboard, in which rare flower-roots were kept, for my Lady Grubbe was fond of plants and cultivated trees and shrubs.

Who acts: Lady Grubbe · What happens: stand, carve, keep, be, cultivate · To what, where: carved cupboard, rare flower roots

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Grubbe), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cupboard	det
4	quaintly	quaintly	ADV	_	5 carved	advmod
5	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cupboard	amod
6	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 kept	obl
10	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 roots	amod
11	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roots	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 flower	punct
13	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kept	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kept	aux:pass
15	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fond	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 fond	mark
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Grubbe	nmod:poss
19	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Grubbe	compound
20	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fond	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fond	cop
22	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kept	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 plants	case
24	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fond	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 trees	cc
26	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 trees	amod
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plants	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shrubs	cc
29	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plants	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a carved cupboard	here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cupboard=Stimulus
2	carve	participle				quaintly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past · passive		rare flower roots			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in which=Location
4	is	past	my Lady Grubbe			of plants and cultivated trees and shrubs; fond property	tree rules
5	cultivate	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: 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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