Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 168
“I came from the wood this winter; I am in my prime, and am only rather short for my age.”
Who acts: Tree · What happens: come, be · To what, where: wood, prime
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 winter | det |
| 8 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 prime | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 prime | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 prime | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 prime | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 prime | nmod:poss |
| 14 | prime | prime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 short | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 short | cc |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 short | cop |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 short | advmod |
| 19 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 20 short | advmod |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 age | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 age | nmod:poss |
| 23 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 short | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 short | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | Tree | the wood | winter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Tree | my prime | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | for my age | short 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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