Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 40

On the table stood beautiful cherries, and Gerda had permission to eat as many as she would.

Who acts: Gerda · What happens: stand, have, eat · To what, where: beautiful cherries, table, permission, many

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 (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	On	on	ADP	_	3 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cherries	amod
6	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
11	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 permission	acl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eat	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 would	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 would	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 many	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past		beautiful cherries	the table	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cherry=Theme on table=Destination
2	have	past	Gerda	permission		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here	many		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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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