Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 110

There was such a bawling and screaming--the Fir Tree alone was silent, and he thought to himself, “Am I not to bawl with the rest?

Who acts: bawling, Fir Tree, Tree · What happens: be, scream, think, not bawl · To what, where: Tree · 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 (bawling, Fir Tree, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bawling	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bawling	det
5	bawling	bawling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 screaming	cc
7	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 bawling	conj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 silent	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tree	det
10	Fir	Fir	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Tree	compound
11	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 silent	nsubj
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 Tree	advmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 silent	cop
14	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bawling	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 thought	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bawl	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 bawl	punct
23	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 bawl	aux
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 bawl	nsubj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 bawl	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 bawl	mark
27	bawl	bawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 rest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rest	det
30	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bawl	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	such bawling		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	gerund	such bawling not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the Fir Tree			silent property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Tree	Tree			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not bawl speech: other in a quote	present	Tree			with the rest	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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