Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 47

The trunk, it is true, was cleft in the middle from the root to the crown; the storms had bent it a little, but it still stood there, and out of every crevice and cleft, in which wind and weather had carried mould, blades of grass and flowers sprang forth.

Who acts: trunk, blades · What happens: be, bend, stand, carry, sprang · To what, where: middle, storms, wind, carried mould, crevice

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 (trunk, blades), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trunk	det
2	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 true	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 trunk	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 true	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cleft	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cleft	cop
9	cleft	cleft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 true	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cleft	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 root	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 root	det
15	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cleft	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 crown	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 crown	det
18	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 root	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bent	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 storms	det
21	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bent	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bent	aux
23	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 true	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bent	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 little	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bent	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stood	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 stood	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stood	nsubj
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 stood	advmod
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 true	conj
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 stood	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 sprang	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 sprang	cc
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 crevice	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 crevice	case
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 crevice	det
38	crevice	crevice	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sprang	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cleft	cc
40	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 crevice	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 carried	punct
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 which	case
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 carried	obl
44	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 carried	nsubj:pass
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 weather	cc
46	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wind	conj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 carried	aux
48	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 mould	amod
49	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 crevice	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 blades	punct
51	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 sprang	nsubj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 grass	case
53	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 blades	nmod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 flowers	cc
55	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 grass	conj
56	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 stood	parataxis
57	forth	forth	ADV	_	56 sprang	advmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the trunk				true property	tree rules
2	is	past	the trunk not said here		the middle		from the root to the crown; cleft property	tree rules
3	bend	past · perfect · passive		the storms			a little obl:unmarked	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient it=Result
4	stand	past	trunk		there	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	carry	past · perfect · passive		wind and weather	carried mould			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in which=Location
6	sprang	present	blades of grass and flowers		every crevice and cleft and carried mould		forth property	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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