--- title: And there stood the oak, stripped of all its leaves, left to rest du… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And there stood the oak, stripped of all its leaves, left to rest during the whole of a long winter, and to dream many dreams of events that had happened in its life, as in the dreams of men. Who acts: events. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/36/) [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 Last Dream of the Old Oak](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/) / 36 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 36 And there stood the oak, stripped of all its leaves, left to rest during the whole of a long winter, and to dream many dreams of events that had happened in its life, as in the dreams of men. **Who acts:** events · **What happens:** stand, strip, leave, rest, dream, happen · **To what, where:** oak, leaves, many dreams, life, events, men 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 (events), 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:pg27200:69:36 # text = And there stood the oak, stripped of all its leaves, left to rest during the whole of a long winter, and to dream many dreams of events that had happened in its life, as in the dreams of men. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 stripped strip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 11 det:predet _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 16 during during ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 dream dream VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 dreams dream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | | the oak | | there | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus | | 2 | **strip** | participle | | the oak *not said here* | | | | of oak's leaves | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **leave** | participle | | oak's leaves *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | | | | | during the whole | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **dream** | to-infinitive | | many dreams of events | | | | as the dreams of men | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic | | 6 | **happen** | past · perfect | events | | | oak's life | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in life=Location | | 7 | **dream** | | | events | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **dream** | | | men | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/37/) - ↑ back to [The Last Dream of the Old Oak](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/69/)