Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 65

In one of these houses lived the master for whom Knud worked; and over the little garret window where he sat, the elder-tree waved its branches.

Who acts: houses, Knud, elder tree · What happens: live, work, sit, wave · To what, where: master, little garret window, branches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses, Knud, elder 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lived	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 houses	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 houses	det
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 master	det
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 whom	case
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 master	nmod
11	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 worked	nsubj
12	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 whom	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 window	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 window	cc
15	over	over	ADP	_	19 window	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 window	amod
18	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 window	compound
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 sat	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 window	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 waved	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
25	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tree	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 elder	punct
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 waved	nsubj
28	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sat	conj
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 branches	nmod:poss
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 waved	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	this houses	the master	the little garret window	in one	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme master=Location
2	work	past	Knud				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	Knud				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wave	past	the elder tree	tree's branches			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=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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