Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 48

When she awoke, the sun was high in the heavens; yet she could not see him, for the lofty trees spread their branches thickly over her head; but his beams were glancing through the leaves here and there, like a golden mist.

Who acts: leaf, sun, lofty trees, beams, tree · What happens: awake, be, not see, spread, glance, beam · To what, where: heavens, sun, branches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, sun, lofty trees, beams), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 high	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 high	cop
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 awoke	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 heavens	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heavens	det
11	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 high	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 awoke	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spread	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 spread	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trees	det
22	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 trees	amod
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spread	nsubj
24	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 see	advcl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 branches	nmod:poss
26	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spread	obj
27	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spread	xcomp
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 head	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thickly	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 glancing	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 glancing	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 beams	nmod:poss
34	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 glancing	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 glancing	aux
36	glancing	glance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 awoke	advcl
37	through	through	ADP	_	39 leaves	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 leaves	det
39	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 glancing	obl
40	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 glancing	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 there	cc
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 here	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 mist	punct
44	like	like	ADP	_	47 mist	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 mist	det
46	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 mist	amod
47	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 glancing	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	awake	past	leaf				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the sun		the heavens	high property	tree rules
3	not see	could	leaf	sun			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	spread	present	the lofty trees	heavens's branches		thickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme
5	glance	past · progressive	tree's beams		here	like a golden mist; through the leaves	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through leaf=Theme
6	beam		tree				nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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