Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 82

Then she asked so many questions about Knud's parents, and everything, even to the elder-tree and the willow, which she called "elder-mother and willow-father," as if they had been human beings; and so, indeed, they might be, quite as much as the gingerbread cakes.

Who acts: girl, questions · What happens: ask, call, be · To what, where: many questions, elder tree, human beings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (girl, questions), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 questions	amod
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asked	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 parents	case
8	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 parents	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Knud	case
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 questions	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 everything	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 everything	cc
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 asked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tree	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	20 tree	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
18	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 elder	punct
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 willow	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 willow	det
23	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 called	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	nsubj
27	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tree	conj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 mother	punct
29	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mother	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 elder	punct
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 father	cc
33	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 father	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 willow	punct
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mother	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 father	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 father	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 beings	mark
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 beings	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 beings	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 beings	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 beings	cop
43	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 beings	amod
44	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 called	xcomp
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 so	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 so	cc
47	so	so	ADV	_	57 much	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 indeed	punct
49	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	47 so	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 much	punct
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 much	nsubj
52	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 much	aux
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 much	cop
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 much	punct
55	quite	quite	ADV	_	57 much	advmod
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 much	advmod
57	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 asked	ccomp
58	as	as	ADP	_	61 cakes	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 cakes	det
60	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 cakes	compound
61	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 much	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	girl	many questions	then	about Knud's parents; to the elder tree and the willow; everything obl	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about parent=Topic
2	call	past	girl	the elder tree and the willow			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	questions = question	human beings			tree rules
4	is	might	questions = question			as the gingerbread cakes; much property	tree rules

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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