Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 39

The green grass, with the little red and white flowers, was the carpet; the elder-bushes and the hedges of wild roses looked like garlands on the walls; and for a bath he could have the clear, fresh water of the brook; while the rushes bowed their heads to him, to wish him good morning and good evening.

Who acts: green grass, elder bushes, haystack, rushes · What happens: be, look, have, bow, wish · To what, where: carpet, clear fresh water, heads, haystack

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green grass, elder bushes, haystack, rushes), 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 grass	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grass	amod
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carpet	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flowers	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	11 flowers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flowers	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flowers	amod
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flowers	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 white	cc
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	conj
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grass	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grass	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carpet	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 carpet	det
15	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 bushes	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bushes	det
18	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bushes	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 elder	punct
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 looked	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hedges	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hedges	det
23	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bushes	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 roses	case
25	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 roses	amod
26	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hedges	nmod
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carpet	acl:relcl
28	like	like	ADP	_	29 garlands	case
29	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 looked	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 walls	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 walls	det
32	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 garlands	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 have	cc
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 bath	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bath	det
37	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 have	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 have	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 have	aux
40	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 carpet	parataxis
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 water	det
42	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 water	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 clear	punct
44	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 water	amod
45	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 have	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 brook	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 brook	det
48	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 water	nmod
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 bowed	punct
50	while	while	SCONJ	_	53 bowed	mark
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 rushes	det
52	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 bowed	nsubj
53	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 have	conj
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 heads	nmod:poss
55	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 bowed	obj
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 bowed	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 wish	punct
59	to	to	PART	_	60 wish	mark
60	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	40 have	parataxis
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 wish	obj
62	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 morning	amod
63	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 wish	obl:unmarked
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 evening	cc
65	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 evening	amod
66	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 morning	conj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 carpet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the green grass and the little red flowers	the carpet				tree rules
2	look	past	the elder bushes and the hedges of wild roses	the carpet not said here			like garlands on the walls	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme carpet=Attribute
3	have	could	haystack	the clear fresh water of the brook			for a bath	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	bow	past	the rushes	rushes's heads	haystack			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Topic to he=Recipient
5	wish	to-infinitive		haystack		morning		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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