Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 38

And we who are telling this story stood upon a balcony, and looked down upon the green spring sight that had been brought in from the fresh country air, and said, what the old clergyman would have said, "Poor Dryad!"

Who acts: we, story · What happens: tell, stand, look down, bring in, say · To what, where: balcony, green spring sight, fresh country air, old clergyman · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (we, story), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 telling	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 telling	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 telling	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	aux
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stood	advcl
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 balcony	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 balcony	det
11	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 looked	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 sight	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sight	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sight	amod
19	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sight	compound
20	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looked	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 brought	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brought	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 brought	aux:pass
24	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sight	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 brought	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	30 air	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
28	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 air	amod
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 air	compound
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 said	obj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 clergyman	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 clergyman	amod
38	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 said	nsubj:pass
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 said	aux
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 said	aux
41	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 said	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Dryad	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Dryad	punct
44	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Dryad	amod
45	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 said	ccomp
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 Dryad	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 Dryad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	we				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past	this story		a balcony		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon balcony=Location
3	look down	past	this story not said here			upon the green spring sight; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon sight=Theme
4	bring in	past · perfect · passive		the green spring sight	the fresh country air		vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	say speech: assert	past	this story not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	say speech: assert	would · perfect · passive		the old clergyman			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner

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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