Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 59

It was so still that she could hear the sound of her own footsteps, as well as the rustling of every withered leaf which she crushed under her feet.

Who acts: repast, daughter · What happens: be, wither, crush, rustle · To what, where: withered leaf, feet

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 (repast, daughter), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	8 hear	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 hear	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sound	det
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 footsteps	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 footsteps	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 footsteps	amod
14	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sound	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rustling	punct
16	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	20 rustling	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 as	fixed
18	as	as	ADP	_	16 as	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rustling	det
20	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 footsteps	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 leaf	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 leaf	det
23	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 leaf	amod
24	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rustling	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 crushed	obj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 crushed	nsubj
27	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 leaf	acl:relcl
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 feet	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 feet	nmod:poss
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crushed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could · past	repast			still	hear property	tree rules
2	wither	participle						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	crush	past	daughter	every withered leaf	daughter's feet			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	rustle			every withered leaf				nom rustling «act transitive»: of=patient

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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