Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 65
The summit of the tree waved to and fro, and bent downwards as if in his silent longing he sought for something.
Who acts: summit · What happens: wave, fro, seek, long · To what, where: silent longing
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 (summit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 summit | det |
| 2 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waved | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 summit | nmod |
| 6 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 waved | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fro | cc |
| 9 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 waved | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bent | cc |
| 12 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 waved | parataxis |
| 13 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 12 bent | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 sought | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 sought | mark |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 longing | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 longing | nmod:poss |
| 18 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 longing | amod |
| 19 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sought | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sought | nsubj |
| 21 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bent | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 something | case |
| 23 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 sought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | the summit of the tree | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | the summit of the tree not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seek | past | summit | summit's silent longing | for something | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in longing=Location for something=Theme | |||
| 4 | long | summit | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: 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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