Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 36

“They are not taller than I; there was one indeed that was considerably shorter; and why do they retain all their branches?

Who acts: firs, one, that · What happens: not be, be, retain · To what, where: branches

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 (firs, one, that), 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	_	5 taller	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taller	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taller	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 taller	advmod
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 I	case
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 taller	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taller	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 was	nsubj
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 shorter	advmod
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 shorter	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shorter	cop
15	considerably	considerably	ADV	_	16 shorter	advmod
16	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 one	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 retain	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 retain	cc
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 retain	advmod
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 retain	aux
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 retain	nsubj
22	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 taller	parataxis
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 branches	det:predet
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 branches	nmod:poss
25	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 retain	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 taller	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	firs = fir			than the Fir = fir; tall property	tree rules
2	be in a quote	past	one		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	that			considerably, indeed, short property	tree rules
4	retain in a quote	present · do-support	firs = fir	firs's branches			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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