Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 78

The written leaf, the last farewell of the bridegroom to his bride, would only bring sorrow when once it reached her hands; but where were those hands, so soft and delicate, which had once spread the table-cloth on the fresh grass in the green wood, on the day of her betrothal?

Who acts: written leaf, leaf, bride · What happens: write, bring, reach, be, spread, betroth · To what, where: sorrow, hands, table cloth, fresh grass

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (written leaf, leaf, bride), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 leaf	det
2	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 leaf	amod
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 farewell	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farewell	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 farewell	amod
7	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaf	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bridegroom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bridegroom	det
10	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 farewell	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 bride	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bride	nmod:poss
13	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bridegroom	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 leaf	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 bring	advmod
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obj
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 reached	mark
20	once	once	SCONJ	_	22 reached	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reached	nsubj
22	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	advcl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hands	nmod:poss
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 reached	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 hands	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 hands	cc
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 hands	advmod
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hands	cop
29	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 hands	det
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bring	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 soft	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 soft	advmod
33	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bring	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 delicate	cc
35	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 soft	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 spread	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 spread	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 spread	aux
39	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	40 spread	advmod
40	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 soft	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 cloth	det
42	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 cloth	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 table	punct
44	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spread	obj
45	on	on	ADP	_	48 grass	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 grass	det
47	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 grass	amod
48	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spread	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 wood	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 wood	det
51	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 wood	amod
52	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 grass	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 day	punct
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 day	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 day	det
56	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 betrothal	case
58	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 betrothal	nmod:poss
59	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 day	nmod
60	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	would	the written leaf	sorrow		day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme
3	reach	past	leaf	bride's hands				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	is a	past		that hands				tree rules
5	spread	past · perfect · passive		the table cloth	the fresh grass in the green wood		once property	tree rules
6	betroth		bride					nom betrothal «communication 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: «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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