Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 2

Westward of this ridge, and not far from the river, stands a farmhouse, surrounded by such poor land that the sandy soil shows itself between the scanty ears of rye and wheat which grow in it.

Who acts: farmhouse, sandy soil, scanty ears · What happens: stand, surround, show, grow · To what, where: farmhouse, soil, ridge

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmhouse, sandy soil, scanty ears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:3703): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Westward	westward	ADV	_	13 stands	advmod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 ridge	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 ridge	det
4	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Westward	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 far	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 far	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Westward	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 far	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 far	punct
13	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 farmhouse	det
15	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stands	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 surrounded	punct
17	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 farmhouse	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 land	case
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 land	amod
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 land	amod
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 surrounded	obl:agent
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 shows	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 soil	det
24	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 soil	amod
25	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shows	nsubj
26	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 land	acl
27	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 shows	obj
28	between	between	ADP	_	31 ears	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ears	det
30	scanty	scanty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ears	amod
31	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shows	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 rye	case
33	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ears	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wheat	cc
35	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rye	conj
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 grow	nsubj
37	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 ears	acl:relcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 grow	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a farmhouse			westward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	surround	participle		a farmhouse not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	show	present	the sandy soil	soil		between the scanty ears of rye and wheat	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient
4	grow	present	the scanty ears of rye and wheat		ridge		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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