Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 44

Therefore she went into the garden, and stretched out her crutch towards all the rose-trees, beautiful though they were; and they immediately sunk into the dark earth, so that no one could tell where they had once stood.

Who acts: woman, trees, one · What happens: go, stretch out, be, sunk, tell, stand · To what, where: garden, crutch, dark earth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, trees, one), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stretched	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stretched	cc
9	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 stretched	compound:prt
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 crutch	nmod:poss
12	crutch	crutch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stretched	obj
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	18 trees	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 trees	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
16	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 rose	punct
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stretched	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beautiful	punct
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	23 were	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 were	nsubj
23	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 beautiful	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 sunk	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sunk	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sunk	nsubj
27	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	28 sunk	advmod
28	sunk	sunk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 earth	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 earth	det
31	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 earth	amod
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sunk	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tell	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 tell	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tell	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 tell	aux
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sunk	parataxis
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 stood	advmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stood	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 stood	aux
43	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	44 stood	advmod
44	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 tell	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	woman		the garden	therefore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
2	stretch out	participle	woman not said here	woman's crutch		towards all rose trees	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent crutch=Patient towards tree=Recipient
3	be	past	trees = tree				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sunk	present	trees = tree		the dark earth	immediately property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	could	no one				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	stand	past · perfect	trees = tree			once property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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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