Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 2

In one of these large towns lived two poor children who had a garden something larger and better than a few flower-pots.

Who acts: large towns, two poor children · What happens: live, have · To what, where: two poor children, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large towns, two poor children), 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	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 lived	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 towns	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 towns	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 towns	amod
6	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 children	nummod
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 children	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 something	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 something	compound
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 had	obj
16	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 something	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 better	cc
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 larger	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	24 pots	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pots	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pots	amod
22	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pots	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 flower	punct
24	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 larger	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	this large towns	two poor children				in one	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme child=Location
2	have	past	two poor children	something					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient

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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