Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 61

They recalled to the memory the well-known look in the eyes of a child, or in the eyes of lovers who had once met beneath the branches of the old oak.

Who acts: stars, lovers · What happens: recall, know, meet · To what, where: known look, eyes

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 (stars, lovers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 recalled	nsubj
2	recalled	recall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 memory	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 memory	det
5	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recalled	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 look	det
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 known	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 look	amod
10	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 recalled	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eyes	det
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 child	det
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eyes	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eyes	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 eyes	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 eyes	det
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 recalled	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 lovers	case
23	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 eyes	nmod
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 met	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 met	aux
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 met	advmod
27	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 lovers	acl:relcl
28	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	30 branches	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 branches	det
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 met	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 oak	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 oak	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 oak	amod
34	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 branches	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 recalled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recall	past	stars = star	the known look	the eyes of a child	to the memory; in the eyes of lovers	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent look=Theme to memory=Destination
2	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	meet	past · perfect	lovers			beneath the branches of the old oak; once property	vn meet-36.3-1 «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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