Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 3
But the little Fir wanted so very much to be a grown-up tree.
Who acts: little Fir · What happens: want, grow up, be · To what, where: grown 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 (little Fir), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wanted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fir | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fir | amod |
| 4 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tree | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tree | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 12 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tree | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 grown | compound:prt |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 much | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the little Fir | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the little Fir not said here | a grown tree | 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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