Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 42

In its topmost branches the wood-pigeon built her nest, and the cuckoo carried out his usual vocal performances, and his well-known notes echoed amid the boughs; and in autumn, when the leaves looked like beaten copper plates, the birds of passage would come and rest upon the branches before taking their flight across the sea.

Who acts: wood pigeon, cuckoo, known notes, leaves, birds · What happens: build, carry out, know, echo, look, beat · To what, where: nest, topmost branches, usual vocal performances, amid, branches, flight

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 (wood pigeon, cuckoo, known notes, leaves), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 branches	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 branches	nmod:poss
3	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 branches	amod
4	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 built	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pigeon	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pigeon	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 wood	punct
8	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	nsubj
9	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nest	nmod:poss
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 carried	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cuckoo	det
15	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carried	nsubj
16	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 built	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 carried	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 performances	nmod:poss
19	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 performances	amod
20	vocal	vocal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 performances	amod
21	performances	performance	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 carried	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 echoed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 echoed	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 notes	nmod:poss
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 known	advmod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 well	punct
27	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 notes	amod
28	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 echoed	nsubj
29	echoed	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 carried	conj
30	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 echoed	obj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boughs	det
32	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 echoed	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 come	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 come	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 autumn	case
36	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 come	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 looked	punct
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 looked	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 leaves	det
40	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 looked	nsubj
41	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 autumn	conj
42	like	like	ADP	_	45 plates	case
43	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 plates	amod
44	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 plates	compound
45	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 looked	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 autumn	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 birds	det
48	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 come	nsubj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 passage	case
50	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 birds	nmod
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 come	aux
52	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 built	parataxis
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 rest	cc
54	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 come	conj
55	upon	upon	ADP	_	57 branches	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 branches	det
57	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 rest	obl
58	before	before	SCONJ	_	59 taking	mark
59	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 rest	advcl
60	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 flight	nmod:poss
61	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 taking	obj
62	across	across	ADP	_	64 sea	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 sea	det
64	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 taking	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the wood pigeon	pigeon's nest	oak's topmost branches			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
2	carry out	past	the cuckoo	cuckoo's usual vocal performances				vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent performance=Eventuality
3	know	participle					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	echo	past	cuckoo's known notes	amid				tree rules
5	look	past	the leaves				like beaten copper plates	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	beat	participle						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come	would	the birds of passage			autumn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	rest	infinitive	the birds of passage not said here		the branches			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon branch=Location
9	take	gerund	the birds of passage not said here	birds's flight	the sea			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
10	perform		cuckoo					nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent
11	note		cuckoo					nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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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