Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 6

The parents of these children had each a large wooden box in which they cultivated kitchen herbs for their own use, and a little rose-bush in each box, which grew splendidly.

Who acts: parents, each, box · What happens: have, box, cultivate, grow, use · To what, where: kitchen herbs, large wooden box

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 (parents, each, box), 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 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 parents	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 box	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 box	det
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cultivated	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cultivated	nsubj
15	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 box	acl:relcl
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 herbs	compound
17	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cultivated	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 use	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 use	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 use	amod
21	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cultivated	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bush	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bush	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bush	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bush	amod
26	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bush	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 rose	punct
28	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cultivated	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 box	case
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 box	det
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bush	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 grew	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 grew	nsubj
34	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 box	acl:relcl
35	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	34 grew	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the parents of this children				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	box		each				tree rules
3	cultivate	past	parents = parent	kitchen herbs	a large wooden box	for parents's own use	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent herb=Product for use=Beneficiary
4	grow	past	each box			splendidly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	use		parents = parent				nom use «act transitive»: poss=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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