Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 62

There grew water-plants, some quite fresh, and others looking sickly, which had water-snakes twining round them, and black crabs clinging to their stems.

Who acts: others, water snakes, black crabs · What happens: grow, look, have, twine, cling, stem · To what, where: water plants, water snakes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, water snakes, black crabs), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 grew	expl
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plants	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 water	punct
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fresh	punct
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 fresh	nsubj
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 fresh	advmod
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looking	cc
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looking	nsubj
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grew	advcl
14	sickly	sickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looking	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looking	parataxis
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snakes	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 water	punct
20	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
21	twining	twine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 snakes	acl
22	round	round	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 twining	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crabs	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 crabs	cc
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 crabs	amod
27	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obl
28	clinging	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 crabs	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 stems	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 stems	nmod:poss
31	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 clinging	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past		water plants	there	black crabs obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plant=Theme
2	look	gerund	others			sickly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	have	past		water snakes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient
4	twine	gerund	water snakes not said here			round others = other	vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Destination
5	cling	gerund	black crabs not said here			to others's stems	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to stem=Co-Theme
6	stem		others = other				nom stem «communication 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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