Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 32
And the Wind kissed the Tree, and the Dew wept tears over him; but the Fir understood it not.
Who acts: Wind, Dew, Fir · What happens: kiss, weep, not understand · To what, where: Tree, tears, Dew
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 (Wind, Dew, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kissed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tree | det |
| 6 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wept | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wept | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dew | det |
| 10 | Dew | Dew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wept | nsubj |
| 11 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wept | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wept | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 understood | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 understood | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fir | det |
| 18 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 understood | nsubj |
| 19 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 understood | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 understood | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the Wind | the Tree | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | the Dew | tears | over Wind | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | |||
| 3 | not understand | past | the Fir | Dew | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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