Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 33

When Christmas came, quite young trees were cut down: trees which often were not even as large or of the same age as this Fir Tree, who could never rest, but always wanted to be off.

Who acts: Christmas, trees, same age · What happens: come, cut down, not be, not rest, want off · To what, where: trees, young trees

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 (Christmas, trees, same age), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 cut	advmod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cut	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux:pass
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 trees	punct
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 large	nsubj
14	often	often	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 large	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 large	advmod
17	even	even	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 large	case
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	acl:relcl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 age	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 age	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 age	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 age	amod
24	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 large	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 Tree	case
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 Tree	nsubj
27	Fir	Fir	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Tree	compound
28	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 age	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rest	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 rest	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 rest	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 rest	advmod
33	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 age	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wanted	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 wanted	cc
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 wanted	advmod
37	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	40 off	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 off	cop
40	off	off	ADP	_	37 wanted	compound:prt
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Christmas	trees		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut down	past · passive		young trees		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	not is	past	trees		large, often property	tree rules
4	not rest	could	the same age as Fir Tree			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	want off	past	Christmas not said here		always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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