Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 45

A pool of water near some ruined walls was the only remainder of the deep ditches; and here stood a magnificent old tree with overhanging branches--that was the genealogical tree.

Who acts: pool, that · What happens: ruin, be, stand, overhang · To what, where: only remainder, magnificent old tree, genealogical tree

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 (pool, that), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pool	det
2	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remainder	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pool	nmod
5	near	near	ADP	_	8 walls	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 walls	det
7	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 walls	amod
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pool	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 remainder	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 remainder	det
11	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 remainder	amod
12	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 ditches	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ditches	det
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ditches	amod
16	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 remainder	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 here	cc
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 stood	advmod
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 remainder	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
22	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tree	amod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tree	amod
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 branches	case
26	overhanging	overhang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 branches	amod
27	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stood	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 tree	punct
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 tree	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tree	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tree	det
32	genealogical	genealogical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tree	amod
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 branches	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 remainder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ruin	participle					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	a pool of water near some ruined walls	the only remainder		of the deep ditches	tree rules
3	stand	past	a pool of water near some ruined walls not said here	a magnificent old tree	here	with overhanging branches	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
4	overhang	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	that	the genealogical tree			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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