Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 46

The Dryad asked herself if these high-grown houses, which stood so close around her, would not remove and take other shapes, like the clouds in the sky, and draw aside, so that she might cast a glance into Paris, and over it.

Who acts: Dryad, crowd · What happens: ask, grow, stand, not remove, take, draw · To what, where: crowd, glance, grown houses, other shapes, Paris

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 (Dryad, crowd), 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	2 Dryad	det
2	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 asked	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 stood	mark
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 houses	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grown	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 high	punct
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 houses	amod
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	advcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 close	advmod
15	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	xcomp
16	around	around	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 close	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 remove	punct
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 remove	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 remove	advmod
21	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
23	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 remove	conj
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shapes	amod
25	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 take	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 clouds	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 clouds	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 clouds	det
29	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 shapes	appos
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 sky	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sky	det
32	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clouds	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 draw	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 draw	cc
35	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 remove	conj
36	aside	aside	ADV	_	35 draw	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cast	punct
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 cast	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 cast	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 cast	aux
42	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 remove	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 glance	det
44	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cast	obj
45	into	into	ADP	_	46 Paris	case
46	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 cast	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 it	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 it	cc
49	over	over	ADP	_	50 it	case
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Dryad	crowd	glance		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient
2	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand a condition, not said to happen	past		this grown houses		close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not remove	would					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	take	infinitive		other shapes			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
6	draw	infinitive				aside property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cast	might	crowd	a glance	Paris		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent glance=Material into paris=Product

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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