Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 30
“Rejoice in thy growth!” said the Sunbeams.
Who acts: Sunbeams, thy · What happens: rejoice, say, grow · To what, where: growth · 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 (Sunbeams, thy), 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 Rejoice | punct |
| 2 | Rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 growth | case |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 growth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rejoice | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sunbeams | det |
| 10 | Sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice in a quote | infinitive | thy growth | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Sunbeams | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow in a quote | thy | nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=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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