Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 36
And there stood the oak, stripped of all its leaves, left to rest during the whole of a long winter, and to dream many dreams of events that had happened in its life, as in the dreams of men.
Who acts: events · What happens: stand, strip, leave, rest, dream, happen · To what, where: oak, leaves, many dreams, life, events, men
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (events), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 oak | det |
| 5 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stripped | punct |
| 7 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 oak | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 leaves | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 leaves | det:predet |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stripped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 leaves | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rest | mark |
| 15 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 left | advcl |
| 16 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 whole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 whole | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rest | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 winter | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 winter | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 winter | amod |
| 22 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whole | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dream | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dream | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 dream | mark |
| 26 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stood | conj |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dreams | amod |
| 28 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dream | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 events | case |
| 30 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 dreams | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 happened | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 happened | aux |
| 33 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 events | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 life | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 life | nmod:poss |
| 36 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 happened | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dreams | punct |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 dreams | case |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 dreams | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 dreams | det |
| 41 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dream | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 men | case |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 dreams | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the oak | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | strip | participle | the oak not said here | of oak's leaves | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | oak's leaves not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | during the whole | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dream | to-infinitive | many dreams of events | as the dreams of men | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | ||||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | events | oak's life | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location | ||||
| 7 | dream | events | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | dream | men | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=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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