Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 64

Each tree and flower had a name; each represented a human life, and belonged to men still living, some in China, others in Greenland, and in all parts of the world.

Who acts: tree, each · What happens: have, represent, belong, live · To what, where: name, human life, China

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 (tree, each), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 flower	cc
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tree	conj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 name	det
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 represented	punct
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 represented	nsubj
10	represented	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 life	det
12	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 life	amod
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 represented	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 belonged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 belonged	cc
16	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 represented	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 men	case
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 belonged	obl
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 living	advmod
20	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 belonged	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 China	punct
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 China	det
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 China	case
24	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 living	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 others	punct
26	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 China	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Greenland	case
28	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 others	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 parts	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 parts	cc
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 parts	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 parts	det
33	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 represented	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 parts	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	each tree and flower	a name				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	represent	past	each	a human life			in all parts of the world	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot life=Theme in part=Attribute
3	belong	past	each not said here				to men	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	live	gerund	each not said here		some China and others in Greenland	still		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location

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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