Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 189
“Now a merry life will begin again,” thought the Tree.
Who acts: merry life, Tree · What happens: begin, think · 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 (merry life, Tree), 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 | _ | 7 begin | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 begin | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 life | det |
| 4 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 life | amod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 begin | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 begin | aux |
| 7 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 begin | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 begin | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 begin | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tree | det |
| 13 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | future | a merry life | now; again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Tree | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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