Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 177
“I heard it on my happiest evening; but I did not then know how happy I was.”
Who acts: Rats · What happens: hear, not know, be · To what, where: 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 (Rats), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 evening | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 evening | nmod:poss |
| 7 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 evening | amod |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 know | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 happy | advmod |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 know | ccomp |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 happy | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happy | cop |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past | the Rats = rat | tale | evening | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | the Rats = rat | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the Rats = rat | happy 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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