Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 24

Here, behind the white iron railings, once a rose-tree grew; it is gone now, but a little bit of evergreen, from a neighboring grave, stretches out its green tendrils, and makes some appearance; there rests a very unhappy man, and yet while he lived he might be said to occupy a very good position.

Who acts: rose tree, churchyard, little bit, man · What happens: grow, be, stretch out, make, rest, live · To what, where: green tendrils, appearance, unhappy man, man, good position · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose tree, churchyard, little bit, man), 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	14 grew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 railings	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 railings	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 railings	amod
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 railings	compound
7	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Here	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 grew	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
11	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 rose	punct
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	nsubj
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 gone	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gone	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	cop
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 grew	conj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 gone	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stretches	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 stretches	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bit	amod
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stretches	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 evergreen	case
26	evergreen	evergreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bit	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grave	punct
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 grave	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 grave	det
30	neighboring	neighboring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grave	amod
31	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bit	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bit	punct
33	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grew	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 stretches	compound:prt
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 tendrils	nmod:poss
36	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tendrils	amod
37	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stretches	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 makes	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 makes	cc
40	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 stretches	conj
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 appearance	det
42	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 makes	obj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 rests	punct
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 rests	expl
45	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grew	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 man	det
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 unhappy	advmod
48	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 man	amod
49	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rests	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 lived	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 lived	cc
52	yet	yet	ADV	_	55 lived	advmod
53	while	while	SCONJ	_	55 lived	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 lived	nsubj
55	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grew	conj
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 said	nsubj
57	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 said	aux
58	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 said	aux:pass
59	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 lived	parataxis
60	to	to	PART	_	61 occupy	mark
61	occupy	occupy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 said	xcomp
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 position	det
63	very	very	ADV	_	64 good	advmod
64	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 position	amod
65	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 occupy	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	a rose tree		here		once property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	churchyard			now	go property	tree rules
3	stretch out	present	a little bit of evergreen and a neighboring grave	churchyard's green tendrils				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tendril=Patient
4	make	present	a little bit of evergreen and a neighboring grave not said here	some appearance				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product
5	rest	present	a rose tree not said here	a unhappy man	there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
6	live	past	man			yet		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	might · passive		man				tree rules
8	occupy	to-infinitive		a good position				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus position=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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