Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 13

The forest had been planted for them, and the nobleman's castle had been built entirely that they might be cooked and laid on silver dishes.

What happens: plant, build, cook, lay · To what, where: forest, castle, snails, silver dishes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forest	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 planted	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 planted	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 planted	aux:pass
5	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 planted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 built	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 built	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nobleman	det
11	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 castle	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 nobleman	case
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 built	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 built	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 built	aux:pass
16	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 planted	conj
17	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	16 built	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 cooked	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cooked	nsubj:pass
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cooked	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 cooked	aux:pass
22	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 built	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laid	cc
24	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 cooked	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 dishes	case
26	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dishes	compound
27	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 laid	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	plant	past · perfect · passive	the forest		for snails = snail	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	build	past · perfect · passive	the nobleman's castle		entirely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	cook	might · passive	snails = snail			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	lay	participle		silver dishes		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on dish=Destination

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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