Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 23

In the midst of the tree sat a kindly-looking old woman with a strange dress; it was as green as the leaves, and trimmed with large white blossoms, so that it was difficult to say whether it was real cloth, or the leaves and blossoms of the elder-tree.

Who acts: tree · What happens: sit, look, be, trim, say · To what, where: looking old woman, midst, real cloth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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	_	3 midst	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 midst	det
3	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 midst	nmod
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	11 looking	advmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 kindly	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 woman	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 dress	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dress	det
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 dress	amod
17	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woman	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 green	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 green	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 green	cop
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 green	advmod
22	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sat	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 leaves	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 leaves	det
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 green	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 trimmed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 trimmed	cc
28	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sat	parataxis
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 blossoms	case
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 blossoms	amod
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 blossoms	amod
32	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 trimmed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 difficult	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 difficult	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 difficult	expl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 difficult	cop
38	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 trimmed	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 say	mark
40	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 difficult	csubj
41	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	45 cloth	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 cloth	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 cloth	cop
44	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 cloth	amod
45	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 say	ccomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 leaves	punct
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 leaves	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 leaves	det
49	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 cloth	appos
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 blossoms	cc
51	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 leaves	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	56 tree	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 tree	det
54	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 tree	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 elder	punct
56	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 blossoms	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a looking old woman	the midst of the tree	with a strange dress	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in midst=Location
2	look	gerund				kindly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	tree			as the leaves; green property	tree rules
4	trim	participle				with large white blossoms	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blossom=Theme
5	is	past				difficult property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	tree	real cloth			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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