Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 29
The branches of the old willow-tree rustled in the wind, and large water-drops fell from his green leaves as if the old willow were weeping.
Who acts: large water drops, old willow · What happens: rustle, fall, weep · To what, where: old willow tree, wind, green leaves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large water drops, old willow), 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 | 2 branches | det |
| 2 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tree | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 6 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 willow | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tree | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wind | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rustled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drops | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drops | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 water | punct |
| 18 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 leaves | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 leaves | amod |
| 23 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fell | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 weeping | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 weeping | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 willow | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 willow | amod |
| 28 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 weeping | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 weeping | aux |
| 30 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 fell | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rustle | participle | the old willow tree not said here | the wind | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | large water drops | tree's green leaves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from leaf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | weep | past · progressive | the old willow | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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