Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 64

And then she took the little boy out of bed and placed him on her bosom; the elder branches, full of blossoms, closed over them; it was as if they sat in a thick leafy bower which flew with them through the air; it was beautiful beyond all description.

Who acts: bush, branches, thick leafy bower, life · What happens: take, place, close, sit, fly, be · To what, where: little boy, bed, boy, bosom, blossoms, thick leafy bower

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 (bush, branches, thick leafy bower, life), 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	_	4 took	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 placed	cc
12	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 placed	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bosom	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bosom	nmod:poss
16	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 placed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 branches	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 branches	det
19	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 branches	amod
20	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 full	punct
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 branches	amod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 blossoms	case
24	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 full	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 closed	punct
26	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 blossoms	acl
27	over	over	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 closed	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 beautiful	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 beautiful	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 beautiful	cop
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 sat	mark
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 sat	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sat	nsubj
35	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 was	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	40 bower	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bower	det
38	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bower	amod
39	leafy	leafy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bower	compound
40	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sat	obl
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 flew	nsubj
42	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 bower	acl:relcl
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 flew	obl
45	through	through	ADP	_	47 air	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 air	det
47	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flew	obl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 beautiful	punct
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 beautiful	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 beautiful	cop
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	parataxis
52	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	54 description	case
53	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 description	det
54	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 beautiful	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	bush	the little boy	bed	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Theme branch=Destination
2	place	past	bush not said here	boy	bush's bosom			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on bosom=Destination
3	close	participle		blossoms not said here			over blossoms = blossom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	sit	past	branches = branch		a thick leafy bower			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bower=Location
5	fly	past	a thick leafy bower		the air		with branches = branch	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
6	is	past	life				beyond all description; beautiful property	tree rules
7	bosom		bush					nom bosom «state transitive»: 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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