Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 122
And he looked forward with joy to the morrow, when he hoped to be decked out again with lights, playthings, fruits, and tinsel.
Who acts: man · What happens: look, hope, deck out · To what, where: tinsel · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 morrow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morrow | det |
| 9 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoped | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 hoped | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hoped | nsubj |
| 13 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 decked | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 decked | aux:pass |
| 16 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hoped | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 decked | compound:prt |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 decked | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 lights | case |
| 20 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 decked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 playthings | punct |
| 22 | playthings | plaything | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lights | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fruits | punct |
| 24 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lights | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tinsel | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tinsel | cc |
| 27 | tinsel | tinsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 decked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | man | with joy; to the morrow; forward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to morrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hope | past | man | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | deck out not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | tinsel | again | with lights and playthings and fruits | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with light=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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