Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 202
“Had I but rejoiced when I had reason to do so!
Who acts: Tis · What happens: have, rejoice, do · To what, where: Tis, reason · 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 (Tis), 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 | _ | 2 Had | punct |
| 2 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Had | obj |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 rejoiced | cc |
| 5 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Had | conj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 had | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rejoiced | ccomp |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 reason | acl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Tis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 2 | rejoice in a quote | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | Tis | reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Tis not said here | reason not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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