Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 44
“And then?” asked the Fir Tree, trembling in every bough.
What happens: ask, tremble · To what, where: Fir Tree, bough
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: 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 | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 then | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 asked | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tree | det |
| 8 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tree | compound |
| 9 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trembling | punct |
| 11 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bough | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 bough | det |
| 14 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trembling | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Fir Tree | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | every bough | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bough=Location |
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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