Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 31
“Rejoice in thy vigorous growth, and in the fresh life that moveth within thee!”
Who acts: you, fresh life, thy · What happens: rejoice, move, grow · To what, where: vigorous growth
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 (you, fresh life, 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 | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 growth | case |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 growth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | vigorous | vigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 growth | amod |
| 6 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rejoice | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 life | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 life | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 11 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rejoice | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 moveth | nsubj |
| 14 | moveth | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 life | acl:relcl |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 thee | case |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 moveth | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice in a quote | imperative | you not said here | thy vigorous growth | in the fresh life | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | move in a quote | present | the fresh life | within thee | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 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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