Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 2

At the border of the wood, near a large lake, stood the old mansion: deep ditches surrounded it on every side, in which reeds and bulrushes grew.

Who acts: deep ditches, bulrushes · What happens: stand, surround, reed, grow · To what, where: old mansion, border, mansion, side

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deep ditches, bulrushes), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 border	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 border	det
3	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 border	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lake	punct
8	near	near	ADP	_	11 lake	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lake	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lake	amod
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wood	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 border	punct
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mansion	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mansion	amod
16	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 ditches	punct
18	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ditches	amod
19	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	parataxis
20	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ditches	acl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 surrounded	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 side	det
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 surrounded	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reeds	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 reeds	nsubj
28	reeds	reed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ditches	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 grew	cc
30	bulrushes	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grew	nsubj
31	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 reeds	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past		the old mansion	the border of the wood and a large lake	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mansion=Theme at border=Destination
2	surround	participle	deep ditches not said here	mansion	every side	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	reed	present	deep ditches			tree rules
4	grow	past	bulrushes			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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