Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 92

Here on the heath were riches unknown to him until now; for flowers, blackberries, and bilberries were to be found in profusion, so large and sweet that when they were crushed beneath the tread of passers-by the heather was stained with their red juice.

Who acts: riches, passers · What happens: be, find, crush, stain, tread · To what, where: Jurgen, bilberries, profusion, heather

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 (riches, passers), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 unknown	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 heath	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heath	det
4	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	obl
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unknown	cop
6	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 unknown	nsubj
7	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unknown	obl
10	until	until	ADP	_	11 now	case
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 unknown	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 flowers	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 flowers	case
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 unknown	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 blackberries	punct
16	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flowers	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
19	bilberries	bilberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 found	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux:pass
21	to	to	PART	_	23 found	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 found	aux:pass
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 flowers	acl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 profusion	case
25	profusion	profusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 large	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 large	advmod
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 unknown	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sweet	cc
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 large	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 crushed	mark
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 crushed	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 crushed	nsubj:pass
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 crushed	aux:pass
35	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 large	advcl
36	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	38 tread	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tread	det
38	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crushed	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 passers	case
40	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 tread	nmod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 heather	punct
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 heather	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 heather	det
44	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stained	nsubj:pass
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 stained	aux:pass
46	stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 passers	acl:relcl
47	with	with	ADP	_	50 juice	case
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 juice	nmod:poss
49	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 juice	amod
50	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stained	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 unknown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	riches		Jurgen	here	for flowers and blackberries; unknown property	tree rules
2	find	past · passive	riches not said here	bilberries		profusion		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	be		riches not said here					tree rules
4	crush	past · passive		bilberries = bilberry			beneath the tread of passers	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	stain	past · passive	passers not said here	the heather			with bilberries's red juice	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with juice=Theme
6	tread		passers					nom tread «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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