Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 30

The older trees, whose buds were still closed, whispered with their waving branches, "Welcome! welcome!"

What happens: close, whisper · To what, where: older trees

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 closed	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 buds	punct
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 buds	nmod:poss
6	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trees	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 closed	aux:pass
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 closed	advmod
9	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whispered	punct
11	whispered	whisper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 closed	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 branches	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 branches	nmod:poss
14	waving	waving	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 branches	compound
15	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 whispered	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 welcome	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 welcome	punct
18	Welcome	welcome	INTJ	_	20 welcome	discourse
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 welcome	punct
20	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 closed	parataxis
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 welcome	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 welcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past · passive		the older trees and the older trees and the older trees's buds's buds			still		tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	participle						with buds's waving branches	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with branch=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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