Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 63

There stood noble palm-trees, oaks, and plantains, and beneath them bloomed thyme and parsley.

What happens: stand, bloom · To what, where: noble palm trees, thyme

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: 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 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
4	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trees	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 palm	punct
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oaks	punct
8	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trees	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 plantains	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 plantains	cc
11	plantains	plantain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bloomed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bloomed	cc
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bloomed	obl
16	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	parataxis
17	thyme	thyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bloomed	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 parsley	cc
19	parsley	parsley	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thyme	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		noble palm trees and oaks		there			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
2	bloom	participle		thyme and parsley				beneath trees = tree	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location thyme=Theme

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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