Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 48

I saw myself how the stump of the tree turned round, and was a tree no more, while long, clammy branches like arms, were extended from it.

Who acts: I, stump · What happens: see, turn round, be, extend · To what, where: myself, tree, long clammy branches, stump

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stump), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 saw	obj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 turned	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stump	det
6	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stump	nmod
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	advcl
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 turned	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tree	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tree	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tree	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
17	no	no	ADV	_	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 tree	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 extended	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 extended	mark
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 branches	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 long	punct
23	clammy	clammy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 branches	amod
24	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 extended	nsubj:pass
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 arms	case
26	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 branches	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 branches	punct
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 extended	aux:pass
29	extended	extend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saw	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 extended	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	myself			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus
2	turn round	past	the stump of the tree			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		a tree			tree rules
4	extend	past · passive		long clammy branches like arms	stump		vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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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