Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 106

He seated himself under it and said, “Now we are in the shade, and the Tree can listen too.

Who acts: story, we, Tree · What happens: seat, say, be, listen · To what, where: story, permission, shade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, we, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seated	nsubj
2	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 seated	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seated	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seated	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shade	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 shade	punct
10	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 shade	advmod
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 shade	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 shade	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 shade	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shade	det
15	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 listen	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 listen	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Tree	det
19	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 listen	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 listen	aux
21	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seated	parataxis
22	too	too	ADV	_	21 listen	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	seat	past	story	story	permission		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	story not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	we		the shade	now	tree rules
4	listen in a quote	can	the Tree				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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