Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 108
Now which will you have; that about Ivedy-Avedy, or about Humpy-Dumpy, who tumbled downstairs, and yet after all came to the throne and married the princess?”
Who acts: Ivedy Avedy · What happens: have, tumble, come, marry · To what, where: Ivedy Avedy, throne, princess
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 (Ivedy Avedy), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Avedy | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Avedy | nsubj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 Ivedy | case |
| 9 | Ivedy | Ivedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Avedy | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Avedy | punct |
| 11 | Avedy | Avedy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dumpy | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 Dumpy | cc |
| 14 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 17 Dumpy | mark |
| 15 | Humpy | humpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Dumpy | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Humpy | punct |
| 17 | Dumpy | dumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Avedy | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tumbled | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 tumbled | nsubj |
| 20 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Avedy | acl:relcl |
| 21 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 20 tumbled | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 came | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 came | cc |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 27 came | advmod |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 yet | obl |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Avedy | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 throne | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 throne | det |
| 30 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 married | cc |
| 32 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 came | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 princess | det |
| 34 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 married | obj |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | Ivedy Avedy | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tumble | past | Ivedy Avedy | downstairs property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Ivedy Avedy not said here | the throne | yet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | marry | past | Ivedy Avedy not said here | the princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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: «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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