Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 22

Old alder-trees, whose roots were loosened from the banks, clung with their fibres to the bottom of the stream, and the tops of the branches above the water looked like little woody islands.

Who acts: tops · What happens: loosen, cling, look · To what, where: Old alder trees, banks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tops), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
2	alder	alder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 alder	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 loosened	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roots	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 roots	nmod:poss
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trees	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 loosened	aux:pass
9	loosened	loosen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 banks	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 banks	det
12	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 loosened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clung	punct
14	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 banks	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 fibres	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fibres	nmod:poss
17	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clung	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 bottom	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bottom	det
20	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 clung	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 stream	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stream	det
23	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bottom	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 looked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 looked	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tops	det
27	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 looked	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 branches	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 branches	det
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tops	nmod
31	above	above	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 branches	nmod
34	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 loosened	parataxis
35	like	like	ADP	_	38 islands	case
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 islands	amod
37	woody	woody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 islands	amod
38	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 looked	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 loosened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	loosen	past · passive		Old alder trees and Old alder trees and Old alder trees's roots's roots	the banks		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	cling	participle		the banks not said here		with trees's fibres; to the bottom of the stream	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme with fibre=Co-Theme
3	look	past	the tops of the branches above the water			like little woody islands	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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