Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 28

"Just such a large tree, covered with flowers, stands out there; it grew in the corner of an humble little yard; under this tree sat two old people one afternoon in the beautiful sunshine.

Who acts: large tree, tree · What happens: cover, stand out, grow, sit · To what, where: large tree, corner, two old people, beautiful sunshine

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large tree, tree), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	6 tree	advmod
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	6 tree	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stands	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 covered	punct
8	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tree	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 covered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct
12	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stands	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stands	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 corner	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 corner	det
20	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grew	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 yard	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 yard	det
23	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 yard	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 yard	amod
25	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 corner	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
27	under	under	ADP	_	30 sat	mark
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 tree	det
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grew	conj
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 people	nummod
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 people	amod
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sat	obj
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 afternoon	nummod
35	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl:unmarked
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 sunshine	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sunshine	det
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sunshine	amod
39	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover in a quote	participle		such large tree not said here			with flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
2	stand out in a quote	present	such large tree		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow in a quote	past	tree		the corner of a humble little yard			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location
4	sit in a quote	past	this tree	two old people	the beautiful sunshine	afternoon		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent people=Theme in sunshine=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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