Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 37

The great tree had once been small; indeed, in its cradle it had been an acorn.

Who acts: great tree, oak · What happens: be · To what, where: acorn, cradle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great tree, oak), 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	3 tree	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 small	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 small	aux
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 small	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 small	cop
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 indeed	punct
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 acorn	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cradle	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cradle	nmod:poss
13	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 acorn	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 acorn	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 acorn	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 acorn	cop
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 acorn	det
18	acorn	acorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 small	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the great tree					indeed, once, small property	tree rules
2	is a	past · perfect	oak	a acorn		oak's cradle			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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