Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 41

And they certainly grew, and produced flowers and green watery fruit, but it all withered away.

Who acts: trees, potato · What happens: grow, produce, wither away · To what, where: flowers

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 (trees, potato), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 grew	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 produced	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 produced	cc
7	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 produced	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fruit	cc
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fruit	amod
11	watery	watery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fruit	amod
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flowers	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 withered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 withered	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 withered	nsubj
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 withered	advmod
17	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grew	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 withered	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	trees = tree		certainly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	produce	past	trees = tree not said here	flowers and green watery fruit		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Result
3	wither away	past	potato		all, away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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