Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 5

There was once an old estate where no one now lived to require snails; indeed, the owners had all died out, but the burdock still flourished; it grew over all the beds and walks of the garden--its growth had no check--till it became at last quite a forest of burdocks.

Who acts: old estate, one, owners, burdock, growth · What happens: be, live, require, die out, flourish, grow · To what, where: snails, old estate, beds, check, last forest, garden

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: who acts (old estate, one, owners, burdock), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 estate	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 estate	amod
6	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 lived	advmod
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	nsubj
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lived	advmod
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 estate	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 require	mark
13	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lived	xcomp
14	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 require	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 died	punct
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	22 died	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 indeed	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 owners	det
19	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 died	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 died	aux
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 died	advmod
22	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 estate	acl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 died	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flourished	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 flourished	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 burdock	det
27	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flourished	nsubj
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 flourished	advmod
29	flourished	flourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 died	advcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 grew	punct
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 grew	nsubj
32	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
33	over	over	ADP	_	36 beds	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 beds	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 beds	det
36	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grew	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 walks	cc
38	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 beds	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 garden	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 garden	det
41	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 walks	nmod
42	--	--	PUNCT	_	45 had	punct
43	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 growth	nmod:poss
44	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 grew	conj
46	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	47 check	det
47	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
48	--	--	PUNCT	_	51 became	punct
49	till	till	SCONJ	_	51 became	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 became	nsubj
51	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 had	conj
52	at	at	ADP	_	56 forest	case
53	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 forest	amod
54	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	56 forest	det:predet
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 forest	det
56	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 became	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 burdocks	case
58	burdocks	burdock	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 forest	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old estate		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	no one			now		tree rules
3	require	to-infinitive	no one not said here	snails				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snail=Precondition
4	die out	past · perfect	the owners	a old estate not said here			all, indeed property	tree rules
5	flourish	past	the burdock			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	grow	past	burdock		all beds and walks of the garden			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bed=Location
7	have	past	burdock's growth	no check				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Patient
8	become	past	burdock		quite last forest of burdocks			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	walk			the garden				nom walk «act transitive»: of=patient
10	grow		burdock					nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent

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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