Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 117
The Fir Tree stood quite still and absorbed in thought; the birds in the wood had never related the like of this.
Who acts: Fir Tree · What happens: stand, absorb, not relate · To what, where: thought, birds
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 (Fir 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tree | det |
| 2 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tree | compound |
| 3 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 still | advmod |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 absorbed | cc |
| 8 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 thought | case |
| 10 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 absorbed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 related | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 birds | det |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 related | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 birds | nmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 related | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 related | advmod |
| 19 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 this | det |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 related | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Fir Tree | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | absorb | participle | the Fir Tree not said here | thought | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal | ||||
| 3 | not relate | past · perfect · passive | the birds in the wood | tree rules |
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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