Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 59

Then the fir-tree was placed in a large tub, full of sand; but green baize hung all around it, so that no one could see it was a tub, and it stood on a very handsome carpet.

Who acts: green baize, one, baize · What happens: place, hang, see, be, stand · To what, where: fir tree, large tub, sand, tub, handsome carpet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green baize, one, baize), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 placed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fir	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	aux:pass
7	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 tub	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tub	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tub	amod
11	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 full	punct
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tub	amod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 sand	case
15	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hung	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 hung	cc
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 baize	amod
19	baize	baize	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	nsubj
20	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	parataxis
21	all	all	ADV	_	23 it	advmod
22	around	around	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hung	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 see	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hung	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tub	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 tub	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tub	det
34	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stood	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 stood	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 stood	nsubj
38	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hung	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	43 carpet	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 carpet	det
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 handsome	advmod
42	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 carpet	amod
43	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stood	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	place	past · passive		the fir tree	a large tub	then	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tub=Destination
2	hang	past	green baize		sand		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location
3	see	could	no one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	baize	a tub			tree rules
5	stand	past	baize		a handsome carpet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=Location

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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