Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 16

For years it had stood there, in the protection of a mighty oak tree, under which the old venerable clergyman had often sat, with children listening to his stories.

Who acts: children · What happens: stand, sit, listen, protect · To what, where: tree, protection, old venerable clergyman, mighty oak tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 years	case
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	aux
5	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stood	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 protection	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 protection	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 protection	det
10	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
14	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 protection	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
17	under	under	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 sat	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clergyman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clergyman	amod
21	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clergyman	amod
22	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sat	aux
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 sat	advmod
25	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stood	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 children	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 children	case
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sat	obl
29	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 children	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 stories	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 stories	nmod:poss
32	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 listening	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · perfect · passive		tree	the protection of a mighty oak tree; there	year		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in protection=Destination
2	sit	past · perfect · passive		the old venerable clergyman			with children; often property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme under which=Location
3	listen	gerund	children not said here				to Paris's stories	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme
4	protect			a mighty oak tree				nom protection «act transitive»: of=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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