Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 91

Gladly would he have remained in the quiet Rhenish town, but there were too many elders and willow-trees.

Who acts: Knud, many elders · What happens: remain, be · To what, where: quiet Rhenish town

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 (Knud, many elders), 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	Gladly	gladly	ADV	_	5 remained	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 remained	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 remained	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 remained	aux
5	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 town	amod
9	Rhenish	rhenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 town	amod
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 were	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 remained	parataxis
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 many	advmod
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 elders	amod
17	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 were	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 trees	cc
19	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trees	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 willow	punct
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 elders	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	would · perfect	Knud			the quiet Rhenish town		gladly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
2	be	past	many elders and willow trees			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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