Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 165
And then he told about Christmas-eve, when he was decked out with cakes and candles.
Who acts: Tree · What happens: tell, deck out · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 eve | case |
| 6 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 eve | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Christmas | punct |
| 8 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 decked | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 decked | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 decked | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 decked | aux:pass |
| 13 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 decked | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cakes | case |
| 16 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 decked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 candles | cc |
| 18 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cakes | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Tree | then | about Christmas eve | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about eve=Topic | |||
| 2 | deck out | past · passive | Tree | with cakes and candles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cake=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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