Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 87

And then she took the little boy out of bed, laid him on her bosom, and the branches of the Elder Tree, full of flowers, closed around her.

Who acts: Elderbush · What happens: take, lay, close, bosom · To what, where: little boy, bed, boy, bosom

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elderbush), 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 took	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laid	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bosom	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bosom	nmod:poss
16	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 full	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 full	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 branches	det
20	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 full	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Tree	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Tree	det
23	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Tree	compound
24	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 branches	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 full	punct
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 flowers	case
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 full	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 closed	punct
30	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 full	conj
31	around	around	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 closed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Elderbush	the little boy	bed	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent boy=Theme out bed=Initial_Location
2	lay	past	Elderbush not said here	boy	Elderbush's bosom			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on bosom=Destination
3	close	participle	Elderbush not said here				around Elderbush	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	bosom		Elderbush					nom bosom «state 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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