Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 13

Neither the sunbeams, nor the birds, nor the red clouds which morning and evening sailed above him, gave the little Tree any pleasure.

Who acts: sunbeams · What happens: sail, give · To what, where: pleasure, little Tree

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 (sunbeams), 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	Neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	3 sunbeams	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sunbeams	det
3	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sailed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 birds	punct
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 birds	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sunbeams	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clouds	punct
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 clouds	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clouds	det
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clouds	amod
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sunbeams	conj
13	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 morning	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clouds	obl:unmarked
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 evening	cc
16	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 morning	conj
17	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	above	above	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sailed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sailed	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Tree	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Tree	amod
24	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 pleasure	det
26	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	the sunbeams nor the birds nor the red clouds					above breeze	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the sunbeams nor the birds nor the red clouds not said here	any pleasure	the little Tree				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient pleasure=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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