Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 48

Here, in the time of the ancestral mother, had stood clipped hedges, but now only ferns and stinging nettles grew there, hiding the scattered fragments of old sculptured figures; the moss is growing in their eyes, but they can see as well as ever, which was more than the man could do who was in search of the Story, for he could not find that.

Who acts: ferns, moss, man · What happens: stand, clip, sting, grow, hide, sculpture · To what, where: clipped hedges, scattered fragments, eyes, search, that

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 (ferns, moss, man), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stood	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 mother	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
8	ancestral	ancestral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	amod
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	aux
12	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	clipped	clip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hedges	amod
14	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stood	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grew	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 grew	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 grew	advmod
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 ferns	advmod
19	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grew	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nettles	cc
21	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 nettles	amod
22	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ferns	conj
23	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stood	conj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 grew	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hiding	punct
26	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 grew	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fragments	det
28	scattered	scatter	ADJ	_	29 fragments	amod
29	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hiding	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 figures	case
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 figures	amod
32	sculptured	sculpture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 figures	amod
33	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fragments	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 growing	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 moss	det
36	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 growing	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 growing	aux
38	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stood	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 eyes	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 eyes	nmod:poss
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 growing	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 see	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 see	cc
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 see	nsubj
45	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 see	aux
46	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 growing	parataxis
47	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	46 see	advmod
48	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 as	fixed
49	as	as	ADP	_	47 as	fixed
50	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	47 as	fixed
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 more	punct
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 more	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 more	cop
54	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 see	obj
55	than	than	SCONJ	_	59 do	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 man	det
57	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 do	nsubj
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 do	aux
59	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 more	advcl
60	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 search	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 search	cop
62	in	in	ADP	_	63 search	case
63	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 do	acl:relcl
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 Story	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 Story	det
66	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 search	nmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 find	punct
68	for	for	SCONJ	_	72 find	mark
69	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 find	nsubj
70	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	72 find	aux
71	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	72 find	advmod
72	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 see	conj
73	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	72 find	obj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect		clipped hedges	here	time		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hedge=Stimulus
2	clip	participle						vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	sting	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	grow	past	ferns and stinging nettles		there	now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hide	gerund	ferns and stinging nettles not said here	the scattered fragments of old sculptured figures				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Patient
6	sculpture	participle						vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	grow	present · progressive	the moss		ferns's eyes			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location
8	see	can	ferns = fern					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	past					more property	tree rules
10	do	could	the man					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	is	past			search		of the Story	tree rules
12	not find	could	man	that				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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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