Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 20

Each of the young princesses had a little plot of ground in the garden, where she might dig and plant as she pleased.

Who acts: Each, sun · What happens: have, dig, plant, plot · To what, where: little plot, garden, ground

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, sun), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 princesses	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princesses	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 princesses	amod
5	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Each	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plot	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plot	amod
9	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 ground	case
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plot	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 garden	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dig	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 dig	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dig	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 dig	aux
19	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 plant	cc
21	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dig	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 pleased	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pleased	nsubj
24	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 plant	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Each	a little plot of ground	the garden	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Patient
2	dig	might	sun			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	plant	infinitive	sun not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	plot			ground		nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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