Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 28

It had also a thatched roof, and outside were two wooden soldiers, that presented arms to her as she sailed past.

Who acts: house, two wooden soldiers, Gerda · What happens: have, thatch, be, present, sail · To what, where: thatched roof, two wooden soldiers, arms, Gerda

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, two wooden soldiers, Gerda), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	6 roof	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 roof	det
5	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 roof	amod
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 soldiers	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 soldiers	cc
9	outside	outside	ADV	_	13 soldiers	advmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 soldiers	cop
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 soldiers	nummod
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soldiers	amod
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 presented	punct
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 presented	nsubj
16	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 soldiers	acl:relcl
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 presented	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 presented	obl
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 sailed	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sailed	nsubj
22	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 presented	advcl
23	past	past	ADV	_	22 sailed	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	house	a thatched roof			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient
2	thatch	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		two wooden soldiers		outside property	tree rules
4	present	past	two wooden soldiers	arms	Gerda		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Theme to she=Recipient
5	sail	past	Gerda			past property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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