Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 17

There was also a little potato-field, very useful, and an earth bank, with sloe bushes upon it, which had done blossoming, and now bore fruit, sloes, that draw one's mouth together if one tastes them before the frost has touched them.

Who acts: little potato field, sloe bushes, that, one · What happens: be, do, blossom, bear, draw, taste · To what, where: fruit, mouth, frost

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little potato field, sloe bushes, that, one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 field	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 field	amod
6	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 field	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 potato	punct
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 useful	punct
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 useful	advmod
11	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 field	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bank	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bank	cc
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bank	det
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bank	compound
16	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 field	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bushes	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 bushes	case
19	sloe	sloe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bushes	compound
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	parataxis
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bushes	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 done	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 bushes	acl
27	blossoming	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 done	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bore	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bore	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 bore	advmod
31	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
32	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bore	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sloes	punct
34	sloes	sloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fruit	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 draw	punct
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 draw	nsubj
37	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fruit	parataxis
38	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 mouth	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 one	case
40	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 draw	obj
41	together	together	ADV	_	37 draw	advmod
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 tastes	mark
43	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 tastes	nsubj
44	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 draw	advcl
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 tastes	obj
46	before	before	SCONJ	_	50 touched	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 frost	det
48	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 touched	nsubj:pass
49	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 touched	aux
50	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 tastes	advcl
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 touched	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a little potato field and a earth bank		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	sloe bushes upon bank					tree rules
3	blossom	gerund	sloe bushes upon bank not said here					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	bear	past		fruit and sloes		now		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
5	draw	present	that	one's mouth			together property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
6	taste a condition, not said to happen	present	one	fruit				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme they=Attribute
7	touch	present · perfect · passive		the frost				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result

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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