Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 18
In autumn the wood-cutters always came and felled some of the largest trees.
Who acts: wood cutters · What happens: come, fell · To what, where: some
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 (wood cutters), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 autumn | case |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cutters | det |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cutters | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wood | punct |
| 6 | cutters | cutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 came | advmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felled | cc |
| 10 | felled | fell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 felled | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 14 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 trees | amod |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the wood cutters | autumn | always property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fell | past | the wood cutters not said here | some | 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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