Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 26

Yet still he seemed conscious that the willow-tree was stretching its branches over him; in his dreaming state the tree appeared like a strong, old man--the "willow-father" himself, who had taken his tired son up in his arms to carry him back to the land of home, to the garden of his childhood, on the bleak open shores of Kjoge.

Who acts: Knud, willow tree, tree · What happens: seem, stretch, dream, appear, take up, carry back · To what, where: branches, Knud, dreaming state, tired son, arms, bleak open shores

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, willow tree, 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	4 seemed	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 seemed	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 stretching	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
8	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 willow	punct
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stretching	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stretching	aux
12	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 seemed	advcl
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 branches	nmod:poss
14	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stretching	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stretching	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 appeared	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 state	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 state	nmod:poss
20	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 state	amod
21	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 appeared	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 appeared	nsubj
24	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	parataxis
25	like	like	ADP	_	30 man	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
27	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 strong	punct
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 appeared	obl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 father	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 father	det
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 father	punct
34	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 father	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 father	punct
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	appos
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 father	punct
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 appeared	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 taken	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 taken	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 taken	aux
42	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 appeared	conj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 son	nmod:poss
44	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 son	amod
45	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 taken	obj
46	up	up	ADP	_	42 taken	compound:prt
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 arms	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 arms	nmod:poss
49	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 taken	obl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 carry	mark
51	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 taken	advcl
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 carry	obj
53	back	back	ADV	_	51 carry	advmod
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 land	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 land	det
56	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 carry	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 home	case
58	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 land	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 garden	punct
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 garden	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 garden	det
62	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 carry	obl
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 childhood	case
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 childhood	nmod:poss
65	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 garden	nmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 shores	punct
67	on	on	ADP	_	71 shores	case
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 shores	det
69	bleak	bleak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 shores	amod
70	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 shores	amod
71	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 carry	obl
72	of	of	ADP	_	73 Kjoge	case
73	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 shores	nmod
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Knud			still	conscious property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	stretch	past · progressive	the willow tree	sleep's branches			over Knud	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient
3	dream	gerund						vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	appear	past	the tree	Knud	Knud's dreaming state		like a strong old man	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location
5	take up	past · perfect		Knud's tired son	Knud's arms			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent son=Value in arm=Location
6	carry back	to-infinitive		Knud	the bleak open shores of Kjoge		to the land of home; to the garden of Knud's childhood	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to land=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/204/26/