Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 37

They stuck up the two gingerbread figures in the sunshine among the green leaves, and then told the story, and all about the silent love which came to nothing, to a group of children.

Who acts: children, silent love · What happens: stick up, tell, come · To what, where: two gingerbread figures, sunshine, story, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, silent love), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 stuck	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 figures	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 figures	nummod
6	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 figures	compound
7	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuck	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sunshine	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sunshine	det
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuck	obl
11	among	among	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 leaves	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 leaves	amod
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stuck	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 told	advmod
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stuck	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 love	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 love	cc
23	all	all	ADV	_	27 love	advmod
24	about	about	ADP	_	27 love	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 love	det
26	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 love	amod
27	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 love	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 nothing	case
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 group	punct
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 group	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 group	det
35	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 children	case
37	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 group	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	past	children = child	the two gingerbread figures	the sunshine		among the green leaves	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent figure=Theme in sunshine=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	children = child not said here	the story		then	about the silent love	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about love=Topic
3	come	past	the silent love		nothing		to a group of children	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to nothing=Initial_Location to group=Destination

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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