Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 48

Here is where the plant stood," he said; "it is a sacred place."

Who acts: plant, king, wood · What happens: be, stand, say · To what, where: sacred place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plant, king, wood), 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	3 where	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 stood	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plant	det
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 stood	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 place	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 place	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 place	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 place	det
16	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 place	amod
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 place	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present			here	where property	tree rules
2	stand	past	the plant				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	wood	a sacred place			tree rules

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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