Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 60

She wanted to sit down on the pauper's grave where the bitter fern grows; but for her there was neither peace nor rest.

Who acts: Karen, bitter fern · What happens: want, sit down, grow, be · To what, where: grave, peace

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Karen, bitter fern), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sit	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 grave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pauper	det
8	pauper	pauper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grave	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 pauper	case
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 grows	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fern	det
13	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fern	amod
14	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grows	nsubj
15	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grave	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 peace	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 peace	cc
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 was	mark
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 was	nsubj
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 peace	cop
22	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 peace	cc:preconj
23	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	parataxis
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 rest	cc
25	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 peace	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	Karen			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sit down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Karen not said here		the pauper's grave	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grave=Location
3	grow	present	the bitter fern			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		peace nor rest		tree rules

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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