Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 193

My husband is come!” but it was not the Fir Tree that they meant.

Who acts: court, swallows · What happens: come, not be, mean · To what, where: husband, Fir Tree

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 (court, swallows), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux:pass
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 Tree	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Tree	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Tree	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 Tree	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tree	det
12	Fir	Fir	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Tree	compound
13	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 meant	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 meant	nsubj
16	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present · passive		My husband	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not is a in a quote	past	court	the Fir Tree	tree rules
3	mean in a quote	past	swallows = swallow		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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