Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 14

"At that moment there was a rustling in the branches of the willow tree, and the children folded their hands and looked at one another: it was certainly the angel coming with the baby.

Who acts: children, rustling, angel · What happens: be, look, come · To what, where: angel

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, rustling, angel), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct
2	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 folded	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rustling	det
8	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 branches	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 branches	det
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rustling	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
14	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 branches	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 folded	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 folded	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 folded	nsubj
20	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 folded	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 folded	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 looked	obl
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 one	fixed
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 angel	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 angel	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 angel	cop
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	33 angel	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 angel	det
33	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 folded	obl
34	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 angel	acl
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 baby	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 baby	det
37	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 coming	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 folded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the children		fold property	tree rules
2	look in a quote	past	the children not said here		at one	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past	rustling	the angel	certainly property	tree rules
4	come in a quote	gerund	the angel not said here		with the baby	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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