Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 15

So thought the apple-branch, as he stood before the open window, from which he could see out over gardens and fields, where there were flowers and plants enough for him to think and reflect upon; some rich and beautiful, some poor and humble indeed.

Who acts: rest, flowers · What happens: think, stand, see out, be, reflect · To what, where: apple branch, open window, gardens

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, flowers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 thought	advmod
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 branch	det
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 branch	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 apple	punct
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 stood	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
11	before	before	ADP	_	14 window	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 window	amod
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 see	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stood	conj
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 gardens	case
23	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 see	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fields	cc
25	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gardens	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 were	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 were	advmod
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 were	expl
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	advcl
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 were	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 plants	cc
32	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 flowers	conj
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 were	advmod
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 think	mark
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 think	nsubj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 think	mark
37	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 were	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 reflect	cc
39	reflect	reflect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 think	conj
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 reflect	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 rich	punct
42	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	43 rich	det
43	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	parataxis
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 beautiful	cc
45	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rich	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 poor	punct
47	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	48 poor	det
48	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rich	conj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 humble	cc
50	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 poor	conj
51	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	48 poor	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		the apple branch			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot branch=Theme
2	stand	past	rest		the open window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before window=Location
3	see out	could	rest		gardens and fields	out property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	be	past	flowers and plants		there	enough property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	rest				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	reflect	infinitive	rest not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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