Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 4

Here is a barleycorn of a different kind to those which grow in the farmer's fields, and which the chickens eat; put it into a flower-pot, and see what will happen."

Who acts: barleycorn, chickens · What happens: be, grow, eat, put, see, happen · To what, where: fields, barleycorn, flower pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barleycorn, chickens), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 barleycorn	det
4	barleycorn	barleycorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kind	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kind	det
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kind	amod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 barleycorn	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 those	case
10	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 kind	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 grow	nsubj
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 those	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 fields	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 farmer	det
15	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fields	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 farmer	case
17	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grow	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eat	cc
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 eat	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chickens	det
22	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 eat	nsubj
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	parataxis
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 eat	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	31 pot	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pot	det
29	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pot	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 flower	punct
31	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 see	cc
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 put	advcl
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 happen	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 happen	aux
37	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 see	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a barleycorn of a different kind to those			here property	tree rules
2	grow	present			the farmer's fields		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location
3	eat	present	the chickens				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	put	infinitive	the chickens not said here	barleycorn	a flower pot		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
5	see	infinitive	the chickens not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	happen	future					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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