Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 45

The window stood open the whole day, and the little elf could easily have reached the roses, or any of the flowers; but he could not find it in his heart to leave one so afflicted.

Who acts: window, elf, one · What happens: stand, open, reach, not find, leave, afflict · To what, where: little elf, window, heart, one

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 (window, elf, one), 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 window	det
2	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stood	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 open	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reached	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 reached	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 elf	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 elf	amod
12	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reached	nsubj:pass
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 reached	aux
14	easily	easily	ADV	_	16 reached	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 reached	aux
16	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stood	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roses	det
18	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 reached	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flowers	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 flowers	cc
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 flowers	det
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 flowers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flowers	det
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 find	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 find	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 find	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 find	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 find	advmod
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stood	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 find	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 heart	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 heart	nmod:poss
34	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 find	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 leave	mark
36	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 find	advcl
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 leave	obj
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 afflicted	advmod
39	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 leave	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the window				of any flowers	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	open	infinitive	the window not said here			day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reach	could · perfect · passive		the little elf			easily property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary rose=Theme
4	not find	could	elf	window	elf's heart			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	leave	to-infinitive	elf not said here	one				tree rules
6	afflict	participle	one not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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