Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 2

Outside the garden, by the palings at the road-side, stood a great mighty Thistle, which spread out in many directions from the root, so that it might have been called a thistle bush.

Who acts: great mighty Thistle · What happens: stand, spread out, call · To what, where: garden, many directions, Thistle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (great mighty Thistle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:12822): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Outside	outside	ADP	_	3 garden	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 garden	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 palings	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palings	det
7	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stood	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 side	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 road	punct
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 palings	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 palings	punct
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Thistle	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Thistle	amod
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Thistle	amod
18	Thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spread	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 spread	nsubj
21	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Thistle	acl:relcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 spread	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 directions	case
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 directions	amod
25	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spread	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 root	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 root	det
28	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spread	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 called	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	36 called	advmod
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 called	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 called	nsubj:pass
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 called	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 called	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 called	aux:pass
36	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 spread	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bush	det
38	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bush	compound
39	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 called	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a great mighty Thistle		the garden	by the palings at the road side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside garden=Location
2	spread out	past	a great mighty Thistle		many directions	from the root	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
3	call	might · perfect · passive		Thistle			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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