Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 7

It was burdock from one end to the other; and here lived the last two surviving snails.

Who acts: place, burdock · What happens: be, live, survive · To what, where: burdock, one end, last two surviving snails

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 (place, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burdock	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burdock	cop
3	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 end	nummod
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burdock	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 other	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 end	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 here	cc
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 lived	advmod
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burdock	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snails	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 snails	amod
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 snails	nummod
17	surviving	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 snails	amod
18	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lived	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 burdock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	place	burdock		from one end to the other	tree rules
2	live	past	burdock not said here	the last two surviving snails	here		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme snail=Location
3	survive	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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