Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 65

Some large trees had been planted in little pots, so that they were cramped for room, and seemed about to burst the pot to pieces; while many weak little flowers were growing in rich soil, with moss all around them, carefully tended and cared for.

Who acts: trees, many weak little flowers · What happens: plant, be, seem, burst, grow, tend · To what, where: large trees, little pots, pot, rich soil

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 (trees, many weak little flowers), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 trees	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 planted	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 planted	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 planted	aux:pass
6	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pots	case
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pots	amod
9	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 planted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cramped	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 cramped	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cramped	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cramped	cop
15	cramped	cramped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 planted	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 room	case
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cramped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 planted	conj
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 seemed	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 burst	mark
23	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 seemed	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pot	det
25	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 burst	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 pieces	case
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 burst	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 growing	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 growing	mark
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flowers	amod
31	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flowers	amod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flowers	amod
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 growing	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 growing	aux
35	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 seemed	xcomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 soil	case
37	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 soil	amod
38	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 growing	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 moss	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 moss	case
41	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 growing	obl
42	all	all	ADV	_	44 them	advmod
43	around	around	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 growing	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 tended	punct
46	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	47 tended	advmod
47	tended	tend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 planted	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 cared	cc
49	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 tended	conj
50	for	for	ADP	_	49 cared	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plant	past · perfect · passive		some large trees	little pots		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pot=Destination
2	is	past	trees = tree			for room; cramped property	tree rules
3	seem	past				about property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	burst	to-infinitive		the pot		to pieces	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme
5	grow	past · progressive	many weak little flowers		rich soil	with moss; around trees = tree	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location
6	tend	participle				carefully property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	care	participle					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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