Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 73

There was a something about the tree here, especially in the moonlight nights, that went direct to his heart; yet it was not in reality the moonlight, but the old tree itself.

Who acts: something, moonlight nights, tree · What happens: be, go, not be · To what, where: reality

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 (something, moonlight nights, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 something	det
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 was	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 something	nmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 was	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nights	punct
10	especially	especially	ADV	_	14 nights	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 nights	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nights	det
13	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nights	compound
14	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 nights	acl:relcl
18	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 went	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 heart	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heart	nmod:poss
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 direct	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 reality	punct
23	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	28 reality	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reality	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 reality	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 reality	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 reality	case
28	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moonlight	det
30	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reality	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tree	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 tree	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tree	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tree	amod
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reality	conj
36	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	35 tree	nmod:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	something	here; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the moonlight nights		direct property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past	tree	reality and the moonlight but the old tree tree		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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