Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 142
And out in the woods it was so pleasant, when the snow was on the ground, and the hare leaped by; yes--even when he jumped over me; but I did not like it then!
Who acts: hare, snow, I · What happens: be, leap, jump, not like · To what, where: ground, hare
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 (hare, snow, I), 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 | _ | 2 out | cc |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 pleasant | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 woods | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woods | det |
| 5 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 out | obl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pleasant | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleasant | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 pleasant | advmod |
| 9 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ground | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 ground | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 snow | det |
| 13 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ground | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ground | cop |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleasant | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hare | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hare | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hare | det |
| 21 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleasant | conj |
| 22 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 hare | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 leaped | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 yes | punct |
| 25 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 pleasant | discourse |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 jumped | punct |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 jumped | advmod |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 jumped | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 jumped | nsubj |
| 30 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleasant | conj |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 jumped | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 like | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 like | cc |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 like | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 like | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 like | advmod |
| 38 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pleasant | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 like | obj |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 like | advmod |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hare | out, pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the snow | the ground | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leap | participle | the hare not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | jump | past | snow | over me | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over i=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | not like | past · do-support | I | hare | then | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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