Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 41

She came to the ditch; and forget-me-nots were growing there, and meadow-sweet; and a very little way off was a hedge of whitethorn, and elder bushes grew there, too, and bindweed with white flowers.

Who acts: dust, nots, elder bushes · What happens: come, forget, grow, be · To what, where: ditch, me, hedge, bindweed

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dust, nots, elder bushes), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 ditch	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ditch	det
5	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 forget	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 forget	cc
8	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 me	punct
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 forget	obj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 me	punct
12	nots	not	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 growing	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 growing	aux
14	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 forget	parataxis
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 growing	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sweet	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sweet	cc
18	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sweet	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 meadow	punct
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	parataxis
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 grew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grew	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 way	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 little	advmod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grew	conj
27	off	off	ADV	_	30 hedge	advmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hedge	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hedge	det
30	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 way	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 whitethorn	case
32	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hedge	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 grew	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grew	cc
35	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 bushes	amod
36	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grew	nsubj
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 grew	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 too	punct
40	too	too	ADV	_	37 grew	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bindweed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bindweed	cc
43	bindweed	bindweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grew	obl
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 flowers	case
45	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 flowers	amod
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 bindweed	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	dust		the ditch		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ditch=Initial_Location
2	forget	infinitive	dust not said here	me			tree rules
3	grow	past · progressive	nots		there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		a hedge		of whitethorn; off property	tree rules
5	grow	past	elder bushes	bindweed with white flowers	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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