Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 24

The swallows did not know anything about it; but the Stork looked musing, nodded his head, and said, “Yes; I think I know; I met many ships as I was flying hither from Egypt; on the ships were magnificent masts, and I venture to assert that it was they that smelt so of fir.

Who acts: swallows, Stork, head · What happens: not know, look, muse, nod, say, think · To what, where: anything, head, many ships, Egypt, magnificent masts, ships · 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 (swallows, Stork, head), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swallows	det
2	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 know	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 anything	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Stork	det
12	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	parataxis
14	musing	muse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 looked	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nodded	punct
16	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nodded	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
24	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	27 think	discourse
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
27	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 said	ccomp
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
29	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 think	ccomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 met	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 met	nsubj
32	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	conj
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ships	amod
34	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 met	obj
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 flying	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 flying	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 flying	aux
38	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 met	advcl
39	hither	hither	ADV	_	38 flying	advmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 Egypt	case
41	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 flying	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 masts	punct
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 ships	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 ships	det
45	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 masts	obl
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 masts	cop
47	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 masts	amod
48	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 venture	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 venture	cc
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 venture	nsubj
52	venture	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 assert	mark
54	assert	assert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 venture	xcomp
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 smelt	mark
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 smelt	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 smelt	cop
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 smelt	nsubj
59	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	60 smelt	nsubj
60	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 assert	advcl
61	so	so	ADV	_	63 fir	advmod
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 fir	case
63	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 smelt	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the swallows	anything		about earth	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
2	look	past	the Stork				tree rules
3	muse	gerund	the Stork not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	nod	past	the Stork not said here	Tree's head			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	the Stork not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	think speech: other in a quote	present	the Stork = stork				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	know in a quote	present	the Stork = stork				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	meet in a quote	past	the Stork = stork	many ships			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Co-Agent
9	fly in a quote	past · progressive	the Stork = stork		Egypt	hither property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from egypt=Trajectory
10	is a in a quote	past	the swallows not said here	magnificent masts	the ships		tree rules
11	venture in a quote	present	the Stork = stork				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the Stork = stork not said here				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
13	is in a quote	past	head			of fir; smelt 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.

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