Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 4

The poultry yard was divided by some planks from another yard in which there was a dung-hill, and on the dung-hill lay and grew a large cucumber which was conscious of being a hot-bed plant.

Who acts: planks, large cucumber · What happens: divide, grow, be · To what, where: poultry yard, large cucumber

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (planks, large cucumber), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 yard	det
2	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yard	compound
3	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 divided	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 divided	aux:pass
5	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 planks	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 planks	det
8	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 divided	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 yard	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 yard	det
11	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 planks	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 was	obl
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 yard	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hill	det
17	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hill	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 dung	punct
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
22	on	on	ADP	_	27 lay	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lay	det
24	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hill	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 dung	punct
26	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	compound
27	lay	lay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 divided	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grew	cc
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 divided	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cucumber	det
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cucumber	amod
32	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grew	obj
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 conscious	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 conscious	cop
35	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cucumber	acl:relcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	42 plant	case
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 plant	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 plant	det
39	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bed	amod
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 hot	punct
41	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 plant	compound
42	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 conscious	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	divide	past · passive	some planks from another yard	the poultry yard		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	grow	past	some planks from another yard not said here	a large cucumber		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cucumber=Theme
3	is	past	a large cucumber		conscious property	tree rules
4	is	gerund			of a bed plant	tree rules

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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