Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 158
“But I know the wood, where the sun shines and where the little birds sing.”
Who acts: Tree, sun, little birds · What happens: know, shine, sing · To what, where: wood
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 (Tree, sun, little birds), 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shines | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 shines | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shines | nsubj |
| 11 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wood | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sing | cc |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 sing | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 birds | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 birds | amod |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sing | nsubj |
| 17 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shines | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | the Tree = tree | the wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shine in a quote | present | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express in a quote | present | the little birds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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