Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 149

“But for that, it would be delightful here, old Fir, wouldn't it?”

Who acts: meaning · What happens: be

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 (meaning), 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	_	13 Fir	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 delightful	cc
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 delightful	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 delightful	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 delightful	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 delightful	cop
9	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Fir	amod
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 delightful	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 delightful	punct
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Fir	amod
13	Fir	Fir	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 would	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 Fir	conj
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 would	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 would	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 Fir	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Fir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	meaning			here		for that; delightful 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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