Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 137

“The earth is hard and covered with snow; men cannot plant me now, and therefore I have been put up here under shelter till the spring-time comes!

Who acts: earth, men, spring time · What happens: be, cover, not plant, put up, come · To what, where: Tis, shelter

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 (earth, men, spring time), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 earth	det
3	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 covered	cc
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hard	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 snow	case
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 plant	punct
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 plant	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 plant	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 plant	advmod
14	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 plant	obj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 plant	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
19	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	23 put	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 put	nsubj:pass
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 put	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 put	aux:pass
23	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 plant	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 put	compound:prt
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 put	advmod
26	under	under	ADP	_	27 shelter	case
27	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 comes	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
30	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 time	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 spring	punct
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 comes	nsubj
33	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 put	advcl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the earth				hard property	tree rules
2	cover in a quote	participle	the earth not said here				with snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=Theme
3	not plant in a quote	can	men	Tis winter out doors = tis		now		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	put up in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Tis winter out doors = tis	shelter; here		therefore property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under shelter=Destination
5	come in a quote	present	the spring time					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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