Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 43

But now it was winter, the tree stood leafless, so that every one could see how crooked and bent were the branches that sprang forth from the trunk.

Who acts: oak, tree, one, crooked branches · What happens: be, stand, see, bend, sprang · To what, where: winter, crooked branches, trunk

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 (oak, tree, one, crooked branches), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 stood	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 winter	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 winter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 winter	cop
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 winter	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	leafless	leafless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stood	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 see	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stood	conj
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 crooked	advmod
19	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 branches	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bent	cc
21	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 crooked	conj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 branches	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 branches	det
24	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 see	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sprang	nsubj
26	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 branches	acl:relcl
27	forth	forth	ADV	_	26 sprang	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 trunk	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trunk	det
30	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sprang	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	oak	winter		now		tree rules
2	stand	past	the tree				leafless property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	could	every one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	bend	participle						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		the crooked branches				tree rules
6	sprang	present	the crooked branches		the trunk		forth property	tree rules

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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