Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 5

In a sunny spot stood a pleasant old farm-house close by a deep river, and from the house down to the water side grew great burdock leaves, so high, that under the tallest of them a little child could stand upright.

Who acts: house, little child · What happens: stand, grow · To what, where: pleasant old farm house, sunny spot, great burdock leaves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, little child), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 spot	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spot	det
3	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spot	amod
4	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
9	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 farm	punct
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obj
12	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 river	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 river	det
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 river	amod
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 close	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grew	cc
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 grew	nsubj
22	down	down	ADV	_	21 house	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 side	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 side	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 side	compound
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 down	obl
27	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leaves	amod
29	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leaves	compound
30	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grew	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 high	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 high	advmod
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 grew	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 that	punct
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 high	obl
36	under	under	ADP	_	38 tallest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tallest	det
38	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 high	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tallest	nmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 child	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 child	amod
43	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 stand	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 stand	aux
45	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 tallest	acl:relcl
46	upright	upright	ADV	_	45 stand	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a pleasant old farm house	a sunny spot		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in spot=Destination
2	grow	past	the house	great burdock leaves			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme
3	stand	could	a little child			upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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