Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 9

In our country it was still autumn, though late in the season; and they thought of that in their distant exile, and often pictured to themselves the yellow leaves on the trees at home.

Who acts: country, natives · What happens: be, think, picture · To what, where: autumn, country, distant exile, yellow leaves, natives, trees

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, natives), 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	_	3 country	case
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 country	nmod:poss
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 autumn	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 autumn	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 autumn	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 autumn	advmod
7	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 late	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 late	mark
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 autumn	amod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 season	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 season	det
13	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 late	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 autumn	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 thought	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 exile	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 exile	nmod:poss
22	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 exile	amod
23	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pictured	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pictured	cc
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 pictured	advmod
27	pictured	picture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 thought	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 themselves	case
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 pictured	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 leaves	det
31	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 leaves	amod
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pictured	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 trees	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 trees	det
35	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 leaves	nmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 home	case
37	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trees	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 autumn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	country	autumn		our country	still		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	natives = native			natives's distant exile		of that	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	picture	participle	natives = native not said here	the yellow leaves	natives = native	the trees at home		often property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme to themselves=be'

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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