Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 11

“Then I should be able to spread out my branches, and with the tops to look into the wide world!

Who acts: little cottage children · What happens: be, spread out, look · To what, where: branches

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 (little cottage children), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 able	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 able	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 able	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 spread	mark
8	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 spread	compound:prt
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 branches	nmod:poss
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 look	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 look	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 tops	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tops	det
16	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 look	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
21	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 world	amod
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	should	the little cottage children = child		then	able property	tree rules
2	spread out in a quote	to-infinitive	the little cottage children = child not said here	my branches			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme
3	look in a quote	to-infinitive	the little cottage children = child not said here			with the tops; into the wide world	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into world=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: «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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