Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 12

Then would the birds build nests among my branches: and when there was a breeze, I could bend with as much stateliness as the others!”

Who acts: birds, I · What happens: build, be · To what, where: nests

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 (birds, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 build	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 build	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	nsubj
5	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obj
7	among	among	ADP	_	9 branches	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 branches	nmod:poss
9	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 bend	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bend	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 was	advmod
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bend	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 breeze	det
16	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bend	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 bend	aux
20	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 build	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 stateliness	case
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stateliness	amod
24	stateliness	stateliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bend	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 others	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 others	det
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bend	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 bend	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 bend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	would	the birds	nests			then	among my branches	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product
2	is	could · past	I					with much stateliness; as the others; bend property	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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