Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 17
“To grow and grow, to get older and be tall,” thought the Tree--“that, after all, is the most delightful thing in the world!”
Who acts: Tree, that · What happens: grow, get, be, think · To what, where: delightful thing, world · 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, that), 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 grow | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 grow | mark |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grow | cc |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grow | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grow | conj |
| 9 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 get | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tall | cc |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tall | cop |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 older | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tree | det |
| 17 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 thing | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 thing | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 thing | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 that | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 that | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 that | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 thing | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thing | det |
| 27 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 28 delightful | advmod |
| 28 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thing | amod |
| 29 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thing | nmod |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 thing | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | tall property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | the Tree | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | that | the delightful thing | the world | 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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