Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 194
“Now, then, I shall really enjoy life,” said he exultingly, and spread out his branches; but, alas, they were all withered and yellow!
Who acts: I · What happens: enjoy, say, spread out, wither · To what, where: life, branches · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 9 enjoy | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 then | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 enjoy | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 enjoy | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 enjoy | aux |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 enjoy | advmod |
| 9 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enjoy | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoy | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoy | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 exultingly | nsubj |
| 15 | exultingly | exultingly | ADV | _ | 13 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spread | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spread | cc |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 spread | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 branches | nmod:poss |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spread | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 withered | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 withered | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 alas | punct |
| 25 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 withered | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 alas | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 withered | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 withered | aux:pass |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 withered | advmod |
| 30 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 yellow | cc |
| 32 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 withered | conj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy in a quote | shall | I | life | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | spread out | past | life's branches | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wither | past · passive | branches = branch | all 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/10/194/