Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 85
And the old tree, as it still grew upwards and onwards, felt that his roots were loosening themselves from the earth.
Who acts: heaven, old tree, roots · What happens: grow, feel, loosen · To what, where: root, earth
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 (heaven, old tree, roots), 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 | _ | 14 felt | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 grew | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 grew | advmod |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 felt | advcl |
| 10 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 9 grew | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 onwards | cc |
| 12 | onwards | onwards | ADV | _ | 10 upwards | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 loosening | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 roots | nmod:poss |
| 17 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 loosening | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 loosening | aux |
| 19 | loosening | loosen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 felt | advcl |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 loosening | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loosening | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | heaven | still | upwards property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the old tree | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | loosen | past · progressive | air's roots | root | the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=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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