Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 1

Belonging to the lordly manor-house was beautiful, well-kept garden, with rare trees and flowers; the guests of the proprietor declared their admiration of it; the people of the neighborhood, from town and country, came on Sundays and holidays, and asked permission to see the garden; indeed, whole schools used to pay visits to it.

Who acts: Belonging, guests, permission, whole schools · What happens: belong, be, keep, declare, come, ask · To what, where: garden, admiration, permission, visits

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Belonging, guests, permission, whole schools), 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	Belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 beautiful	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	7 house	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
4	lordly	lordly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
5	manor	manor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 manor	punct
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Belonging	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beautiful	cop
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 kept	advmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 well	punct
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 beautiful	advcl
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trees	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 trees	amod
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 flowers	cc
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 trees	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 declared	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 guests	det
23	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 declared	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 proprietor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 proprietor	det
26	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 guests	nmod
27	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beautiful	parataxis
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 admiration	nmod:poss
29	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 declared	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 admiration	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 people	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 people	det
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 declared	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 neighborhood	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 neighborhood	det
37	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 people	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 town	punct
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 town	case
40	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 people	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 country	cc
42	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 town	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 came	punct
44	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 declared	conj
45	on	on	ADP	_	46 Sundays	case
46	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	44 came	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 holidays	cc
48	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 Sundays	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 asked	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 asked	cc
51	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 declared	conj
52	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 asked	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 see	mark
54	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 asked	xcomp
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 garden	det
56	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 see	obj
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 used	punct
58	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	62 used	advmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 indeed	punct
60	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 schools	amod
61	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 used	nsubj
62	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beautiful	parataxis
63	to	to	PART	_	64 pay	mark
64	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 used	xcomp
65	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 pay	obj
66	to	to	ADP	_	67 it	case
67	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 pay	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	belong	gerund					to the lordly manor house	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Belonging				beautiful property	tree rules
3	keep	participle	Belonging not said here	garden			with rare trees and flowers; well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	declare speech: other	past	the guests of the proprietor	guests's admiration of admiration			the people of the neighborhood and town and country obl	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admiration=Attribute
5	come	past	the guests of the proprietor not said here			sunday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	the guests of the proprietor not said here	permission				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic
7	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	permission not said here	the garden				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus
8	use	past	whole schools				indeed property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	pay	to-infinitive	whole schools not said here	visits	admiration			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
10	admire		guests = guest	admiration				nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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