Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 46
She told me that Phantaesus was her very dear friend, that he was as beautiful as the god of love, that he remained often for many hours with her under the leafy boughs of the tree which then rustled and waved more than ever over them both.
Who acts: dryad, Phantaesus, tree · What happens: tell, be, remain, rustle, wave · To what, where: me, dear friend, leafy boughs, more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dryad, Phantaesus, tree), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 friend | mark |
| 5 | Phantaesus | Phantaesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 friend | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 friend | cop |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 dear | advmod |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 friend | amod |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beautiful | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 beautiful | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 beautiful | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 god | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 god | det |
| 19 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beautiful | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 god | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 remained | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 remained | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 remained | nsubj |
| 25 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 25 remained | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 hours | case |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hours | amod |
| 29 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 remained | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 remained | obl |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 boughs | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 boughs | det |
| 34 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 boughs | amod |
| 35 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 remained | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 tree | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 boughs | nmod |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 rustled | nsubj |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 rustled | advmod |
| 41 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 tree | acl:relcl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 waved | cc |
| 43 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 rustled | conj |
| 44 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 waved | obj |
| 45 | than | than | ADP | _ | 48 them | case |
| 46 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 48 them | advmod |
| 47 | over | over | ADP | _ | 48 them | case |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 more | obl |
| 49 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 more | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | dryad | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Phantaesus | dryad's dear friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Phantaesus | as the god of love; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | Phantaesus | the leafy boughs of the tree | hour | with dryad; often property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bough=Location | ||
| 5 | rustle | past | the tree | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wave | past | the tree not said here | more | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
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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