The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 41

In the place where they had been buried there sprang up two beautiful young aspens, and the stepmother, who hated the sight of the trees, which reminded her of her crime, gave orders that they should be uprooted.

Who acts: stepmother, trees · What happens: bury, sprang up, hate, remind, give, uproot · To what, where: babies, two beautiful young aspens, place, sight, stepmother, orders

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, trees), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 place	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	obl
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 buried	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 buried	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 buried	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 buried	aux:pass
8	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 place	acl:relcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 buried	advmod
10	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 sprang	compound:prt
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 aspens	nummod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 aspens	amod
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 aspens	amod
15	aspens	aspen	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sprang	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hated	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hated	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stepmother	det
19	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hated	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hated	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hated	nsubj
22	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sprang	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sight	det
24	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hated	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 trees	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trees	det
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sight	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 reminded	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 reminded	nsubj
30	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 trees	acl:relcl
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 reminded	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 crime	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 crime	nmod:poss
34	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reminded	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gave	punct
36	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hated	conj
37	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 gave	obj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 uprooted	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 uprooted	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 uprooted	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 uprooted	aux:pass
42	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 gave	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bury	past · perfect · passive		babies = baby		there		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sprang up	present		two beautiful young aspens		the place		tree rules
3	hate	past	the stepmother	the sight of the trees				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
4	remind speech: other	past	the trees		stepmother		of stepmother's crime	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of crime=Topic
5	give	past	the stepmother not said here	orders				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
6	uproot	should · passive		babies = baby				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	sight			the trees				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	incriminate		stepmother					nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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