Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 243
When the green leaf from home fell on the bosom of each, a longing had seized them to return.
Who acts: green leaf · What happens: fall, seize, return · To what, where: bosom, longing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green leaf), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | amod |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | nmod |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bosom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bosom | det |
| 10 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 bosom | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seized | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 longing | det |
| 15 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seized | aux |
| 17 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fell | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seized | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 return | mark |
| 20 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seized | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the green leaf from home | the bosom of each | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bosom=Location | ||||
| 2 | seize | past · perfect · passive | a longing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | 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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