Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 134

Time enough had he too for his reflections; for days and nights passed on, and nobody came up; and when at last somebody did come, it was only to put some great trunks in a corner, out of the way.

Who acts: nobody, somebody, reverie · What happens: have, pass on, come up, come, be · To what, where: Humpy Dumpy, days, corner

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 (nobody, somebody, reverie), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl:unmarked
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 reflections	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 reflections	nmod:poss
8	reflections	reflection	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 days	case
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nights	cc
13	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 days	conj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 days	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 passed	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
20	up	up	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 come	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 somebody	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 somebody	amod
26	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 come	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 put	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 put	cop
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 put	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 put	mark
34	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 come	conj
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 trunks	det
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 trunks	amod
37	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 put	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 corner	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 corner	det
40	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 way	punct
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 way	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 way	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 way	det
45	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		Humpy Dumpy = dumpy		day; time	for Humpy Dumpy's reflections; enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	pass on	participle		days and nights not said here				vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come up	past	nobody					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past · do-support	somebody					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	reverie		a corner		out the way; put 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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