Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 58

There grew magnificent oaks and beech-trees; and if the bark was split of any of them, long blades of grass grew out of the clefts; there were also large smooth lakes in the wood, on which the swans were swimming about and flapping their wings.

Who acts: long blades, large smooth lakes, swans · What happens: grow, split, grow out, be, swim, flap · To what, where: magnificent oaks, bark, clefts, wings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long blades, large smooth lakes, swans), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 grew	expl
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oaks	amod
4	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grew	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trees	cc
6	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 beech	punct
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 oaks	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 split	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 split	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 split	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bark	det
13	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 split	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 split	aux:pass
15	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grew	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 any	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 split	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 any	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 blades	punct
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blades	amod
22	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grew	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 grass	case
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blades	nmod
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 clefts	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 clefts	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 clefts	det
29	clefts	cleft	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grew	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 were	punct
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 were	expl
32	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 swimming	advcl
33	also	also	ADV	_	34 large	advmod
34	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lakes	amod
35	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lakes	amod
36	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 were	nsubj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 wood	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wood	det
39	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lakes	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 swimming	punct
41	on	on	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 swimming	obl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 swans	det
44	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 swimming	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 swimming	aux
46	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grew	advcl
47	about	about	ADV	_	46 swimming	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 flapping	cc
49	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 swimming	conj
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 wings	nmod:poss
51	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 flapping	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past		magnificent oaks and beech trees	there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oak=Theme
2	split a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the bark		of any	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient of any=Co-Patient
3	grow out	past	long blades of grass	the clefts			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cleft=Theme
4	be	past	large smooth lakes in the wood		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	swim	past · progressive	the swans			about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory
6	flap	gerund	the swans not said here	swans's wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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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