Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 48

And now there stood before him an old peasant woman, who had come from Soroe where the grass grows in the market-place.

Who acts: old peasant woman, grass · What happens: stand, come, grow · To what, where: old peasant woman, Soroe, market place

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old peasant woman, grass), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 stood	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stood	advmod
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
9	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 woman	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 Soroe	case
16	Soroe	Soroe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 grows	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grows	nsubj
20	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Soroe	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 place	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 place	det
23	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 place	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 market	punct
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grows	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past		a old peasant woman	there	before Denmark; now	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	come	past · perfect	a old peasant woman		Soroe		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from soroe=Initial_Location
3	grow	present	the grass		the market place		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=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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