Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 120

That's the way of the world!” thought the Fir Tree, and believed it all, because the man who told the story was so good-looking.

Who acts: That, man · What happens: be, think, believe, tell, look · To what, where: way, Fir Tree, world, story · 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 (That, man), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 way	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	nmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tree	det
12	Fir	Fir	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tree	compound
13	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 believed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 believed	cc
16	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 believed	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 it	det
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looking	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 looking	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looking	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 man	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	obj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 looking	aux
28	so	so	ADV	_	31 looking	advmod
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 looking	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 good	punct
31	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 believed	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the way	of the world	tree rules
2	think speech: other in a quote	past		the Fir Tree		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme
3	believe in a quote	past		world		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the man	the story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
5	look in a quote	past · progressive	the man			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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