Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 67

In a north-west corner of the garden stood a great bush full of blossom, like winter snow amid the summer's green; it was a juniper bush, the first that Jurgen had ever seen in bloom.

Who acts: air, Jurgen · What happens: stand, be, see · To what, where: great bush, west corner, juniper bush, bloom

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, Jurgen), 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 corner	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 corner	det
3	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 west	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 north	punct
5	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 corner	amod
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corner	nmod
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bush	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bush	amod
13	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obj
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bush	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 blossom	case
16	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 snow	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 snow	case
19	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snow	compound
20	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
21	amid	amid	SCONJ	_	25 green	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 summer	det
23	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 green	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 summer	case
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 snow	acl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 bush	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bush	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bush	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bush	det
30	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bush	compound
31	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 first	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 first	det
34	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 bush	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 seen	mark
36	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 seen	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 seen	advmod
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 first	advcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 bloom	case
41	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a great bush	a west corner of the garden		like winter snow	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bush=Theme in corner=Destination
2	is a	past	air	a juniper bush				tree rules
3	be		air not said here					tree rules
4	see	past · perfect	Jurgen		bloom	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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