Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 4

He did not think of the warm sun and of the fresh air; he did not care for the little cottage children that ran about and prattled when they were in the woods looking for wild-strawberries.

Who acts: He, little cottage children, firs, woods · What happens: not think, not care, run about, prattle, be, look · To what, where: woods

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 (He, little cottage children, firs, woods), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sun	amod
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 air	cc
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 air	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 air	amod
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sun	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 care	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 care	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 care	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 care	advmod
18	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	23 children	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 children	amod
22	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 children	compound
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 care	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 ran	nsubj
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 children	acl:relcl
26	about	about	ADV	_	25 ran	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 prattled	cc
28	prattled	prattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ran	conj
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 woods	advmod
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 woods	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 woods	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 woods	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woods	det
34	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 prattled	obj
35	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 woods	acl
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 strawberries	case
37	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 strawberries	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 wild	punct
39	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 looking	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	He		of the warm sun and the fresh air	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not care	past · do-support	he		for the little cottage children	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for child=Theme
3	run about	past	the little cottage children		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	prattle speech: other	past	the little cottage children not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	firs = fir	the woods		tree rules
6	look	gerund	the woods not said here		for wild strawberries	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for strawberry=Theme

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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