Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 80

Then they played in a side-walk, and marked out a little garden on the ground; she took elder-blossoms out of her hair and planted them, and they grew exactly like those the old people planted when they were children, as we have heard before.

Who acts: sparks, girl, old people, we · What happens: play, mark out, take, plant, grow, be · To what, where: side walk, little garden, ground, elder blossoms, hair, sparks

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 (sparks, girl, old people, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 played	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 walk	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 walk	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 side	punct
8	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 marked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 marked	cc
11	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 played	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 marked	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 garden	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 garden	amod
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marked	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 garden	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	conj
22	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 blossoms	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 elder	punct
24	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 took	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 hair	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 hair	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hair	nmod:poss
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 planted	cc
30	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 planted	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grew	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 grew	cc
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 grew	nsubj
35	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
36	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	35 grew	advmod
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 those	case
38	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 grew	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 people	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 people	amod
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 planted	nsubj
42	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 those	acl:relcl
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 children	advmod
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 children	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 children	cop
46	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 planted	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 heard	punct
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 heard	mark
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 heard	nsubj
50	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 heard	aux
51	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 grew	conj
52	before	before	ADV	_	51 heard	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	sparks = spark		a side walk	then		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mark out	participle	sparks = spark not said here	a little garden	the ground			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent garden=Theme on ground=Destination
3	take	past	girl	elder blossoms	girl's hair			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme out hair=Initial_Location
4	plant	past	girl not said here	sparks = spark				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	grow	past	sparks = spark				like those; exactly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	plant	past	the old people					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	sparks = spark	children				tree rules
8	hear	present · perfect	we				before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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