Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 173

So then the Fir Tree told the whole fairy tale, for he could remember every single word of it; and the little Mice jumped for joy up to the very top of the Tree.

Who acts: Fir Tree, Tree, little Mice · What happens: tell, remember, jump up, word · To what, where: whole fairy tale, single word, tale · 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 (Fir Tree, Tree, little Mice), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 told	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Tree	det
4	Fir	Fir	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tree	compound
5	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tale	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tale	amod
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tale	compound
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 remember	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remember	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 remember	aux
15	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	conj
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 word	det
17	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 word	amod
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remember	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 word	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 jumped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 jumped	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Mice	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Mice	amod
25	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 jumped	nsubj
26	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 joy	case
28	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 jumped	obl
29	up	up	ADV	_	26 jumped	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 top	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 top	det
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 top	advmod
33	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 jumped	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Tree	det
36	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 top	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Fir Tree	the whole fairy tale	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
2	remember	could	Tree	every single word of tale			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	jump up	past	the little Mice			for joy; to the top of the Tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result
4	word			tale			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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