Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 163
“I!” said the Fir Tree, thinking over what he had himself related.
Who acts: I, Tree · What happens: say, think, have · To what, where: Tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, Tree), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tree | det |
| 7 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tree | compound |
| 8 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinking | punct |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 thinking | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | I not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Tree | Tree | related property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
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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