Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 95

He wandered on, treading upon Alpine roses, thistles, and snow, with the summer sun shining upon him, till at length he bid farewell to the lands of the north.

Who acts: Knud, summer sun · What happens: wander, tread, shine, bid · To what, where: snow, Alpine roses

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, summer sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 wandered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 treading	punct
5	treading	tread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wandered	advcl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 roses	case
7	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roses	amod
8	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 treading	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thistles	punct
10	thistles	thistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 roses	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snow	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 snow	cc
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandered	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sun	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sun	compound
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wandered	obl
19	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sun	acl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shining	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bid	punct
23	till	till	ADP	_	25 length	case
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 length	case
25	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bid	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bid	nsubj
27	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	parataxis
28	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	27 bid	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 lands	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lands	det
31	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bid	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 north	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 north	det
34	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lands	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	Knud	snow			with the summer sun	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tread	gerund	Knud not said here		Alpine roses and thistles			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rose=Trajectory
3	shine	gerund	the summer sun not said here				upon Knud	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
4	bid	past	Knud			till length	to the lands of the north; farewell 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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