--- title: It seemed to her as if every tree she passed stretched out its leave… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It seemed to her as if every tree she passed stretched out its leaves towards her, with the prayer--"Take me with you! take me with you!" for every tree enclosed a longing Dryad. Who acts: It, engine, tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Dryad, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/) / 19 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 19 It seemed to her as if every tree she passed stretched out its leaves towards her, with the prayer--"Take me with you! take me with you!" for every tree enclosed a longing Dryad. **Who acts:** It, engine, tree · **What happens:** seem, pass, stretch out, take, enclose · **To what, where:** engine, tree, figures, longing · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, engine, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:25:19 # text = It seemed to her as if every tree she passed stretched out its leaves towards her, with the prayer--"Take me with you! take me with you!" for every tree enclosed a longing Dryad. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 towards towards ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 28 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 enclosed enclose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 longing longing NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 Dryad Dryad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | It | | engine | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **pass** | past | engine | every tree *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | | 3 | **stretch out** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle · passive | | every tree | | | | towards engine; with the prayer | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient leaf=Result | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | figures *= figure* | | | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | figures *= figure* | | | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 6 | **enclose** | past | every tree | a longing | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme longing=Co-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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/20/) - ↑ back to [The Dryad, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/25/)