Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 170

“But they may still come--they may still come!

Who acts: woods · What happens: come

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 (woods), 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	_	6 come	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	may	woods = wood				still		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in a quote	may	woods = wood				still		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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