Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 139

Grandmother told me where the cupboard was to be placed, and there it's standing still.

Who acts: Grandmother, cupboard · What happens: tell, place, stand · To what, where: me, cupboard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandmother, cupboard), 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	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 placed	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cupboard	det
6	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 placed	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 placed	aux:pass
8	to	to	PART	_	10 placed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 placed	aux:pass
10	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 standing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 standing	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 standing	expl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 standing	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 standing	aux
16	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	advcl
17	still	still	ADV	_	16 standing	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Grandmother		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	place not said to happen	past · passive		the cupboard				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
3	stand	present · progressive	cupboard			there	still	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/139/