Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 171

Humpy-Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he got a princess!” and he thought at the moment of a nice little Birch Tree growing out in the woods: to the Fir, that would be a real charming princess.

Who acts: Humpy Dumpy, story, nice Birch Tree, that · What happens: fall, get, think, grow out, be · To what, where: princess, woods, real charming princess

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 (Humpy Dumpy, story, nice Birch 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	Humpy	humpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Dumpy	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Humpy	punct
3	Dumpy	dumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	26 Tree	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Tree	det
23	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Tree	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Birch	amod
25	Birch	Birch	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Tree	compound
26	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 moment	nmod
27	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 Tree	acl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 growing	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 woods	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 woods	det
31	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 growing	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 Fir	punct
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 Fir	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Fir	det
35	Fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thought	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 princess	punct
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 princess	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 princess	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 princess	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 princess	det
41	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 princess	amod
42	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 princess	compound
43	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Fir	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Humpy Dumpy				downstairs property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	story	a princess		yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
3	think speech: other in a quote	past	story			moment		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grow out in a quote	gerund	a nice Birch Tree not said here		the woods			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
5	is a in a quote	would	that	a real charming princess				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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