Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 26

The young man took it out as he walked through the dark wood alone, and kissed the flower so often and so violently, that the little elf was almost crushed.

Who acts: young man, elf · What happens: take out, walk, kiss, crush · To what, where: heart, dark wood, flower, little elf

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, elf), 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 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 walked	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 walked	nsubj
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	advcl
10	through	through	ADP	_	13 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	obl
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 walked	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kissed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kissed	cc
17	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flower	det
19	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kissed	obj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 often	advmod
21	often	often	ADV	_	17 kissed	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 violently	cc
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 violently	advmod
24	violently	violently	ADV	_	21 often	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crushed	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 crushed	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 elf	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 elf	amod
29	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 crushed	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 crushed	aux:pass
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 crushed	advmod
32	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 kissed	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take out	past	the young man	heart			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	walk	past	elf		the dark wood	alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory
3	kiss	past		the flower		often property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent
4	crush	past · passive		the little elf		almost property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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