Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 199

“Only look what is still on the ugly old Christmas tree!” said he, trampling on the branches, so that they all cracked beneath his feet.

Who acts: Tree, branches · What happens: look, be, say, trample, crack · To what, where: ugly old Christmas tree, branches, feet · 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 (Tree, branches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:833): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	3 look	advmod
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 tree	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tree	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	12 tree	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	12 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
11	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trampling	punct
18	trampling	trample	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 branches	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 trampling	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cracked	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 cracked	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cracked	nsubj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 they	det
27	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 trampling	advcl
28	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	30 feet	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 feet	nmod:poss
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cracked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	present		the ugly old Christmas tree	still	tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	Tree			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	trample	gerund	Tree not said here	the branches		tree rules
5	crack	past	branches = branch	Tree's feet		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath foot=Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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