Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 73

I often tumbled her long, brown hair, while she stood in the garden by the apple-tree, musing, and not heeding how I strewed the blossoms on her hair, and dishevelled it; or sometimes, while she stood gazing at the red sun and the golden sky through the opening branches of the dark, thick foliage of the garden trees.

Who acts: I, thing · What happens: tumble, stand, muse, not heed, strew, dishevell · To what, where: long brown hair, garden, blossoms, hair

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thing), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tumbled	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 tumbled	advmod
3	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hair	amod
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tumbled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 stood	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tumbled	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garden	det
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	20 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
18	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 apple	punct
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 musing	punct
22	musing	muse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stood	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heeding	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heeding	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 heeding	advmod
26	heeding	heed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 musing	conj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 strewed	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 strewed	nsubj
29	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heeding	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 blossoms	det
31	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 strewed	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 hair	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hair	nmod:poss
34	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 strewed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dishevelled	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 dishevelled	cc
37	dishevelled	dishevell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tumbled	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dishevelled	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 sometimes	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 sometimes	cc
41	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 tumbled	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 stood	punct
43	while	while	SCONJ	_	45 stood	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 stood	nsubj
45	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tumbled	conj
46	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 stood	xcomp
47	at	at	ADP	_	50 sun	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sun	det
49	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 sun	amod
50	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gazing	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 sky	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 sky	det
53	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 sky	amod
54	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sun	conj
55	through	through	ADP	_	58 branches	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 branches	det
57	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 branches	compound
58	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 gazing	obl
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 dark	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 dark	det
61	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 branches	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 foliage	punct
63	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 foliage	amod
64	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 branches	appos
65	of	of	ADP	_	68 trees	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 trees	det
67	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 trees	compound
68	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 foliage	nmod
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tumble	past	I	thing's long brown hair		often, sometimes property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme
2	stand	past	thing		the garden	by the apple tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
3	muse	gerund	thing not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not heed	gerund	thing not said here				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	strew	past	I	the blossoms	thing's hair		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme on hair=Destination
6	dishevell	past	I not said here	hair			tree rules
7	stand	past	thing				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	gaze	gerund	thing not said here			through the opening branches of the dark; at the red sun and the golden sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme

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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