Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 95

Here stood in a row young and slender trees, each of which concealed its Dryad, and gave shade from the artificial sunlight.

Who acts: each · What happens: stand, conceal, give · To what, where: young trees, row, Dryad, shade, artificial sunlight

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each), 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	2 stood	advmod
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 row	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 row	det
5	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slender	cc
8	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 young	conj
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 concealed	punct
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 concealed	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 each	nmod
14	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Dryad	nmod:poss
16	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 concealed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
20	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 sunlight	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sunlight	det
23	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sunlight	amod
24	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past		young trees	a row; here	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in row=Destination
2	conceal	past	each	tree's Dryad		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dryad=Patient
3	give	past		shade	the artificial sunlight	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Theme

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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