Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 48
“I would fain know if I am destined for so glorious a career,” cried the Tree, rejoicing.
Who acts: Tree · What happens: fain, know, destine, cry, rejoice · To what, where: Tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tree), 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 | _ | 4 fain | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fain | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fain | aux |
| 4 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fain | xcomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 destined | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 destined | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 destined | aux:pass |
| 9 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 glorious | case |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 glorious | advmod |
| 12 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 destined | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 career | det |
| 14 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glorious | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fain | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fain | punct |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Tree | det |
| 19 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rejoicing | punct |
| 21 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 cried | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fain in a quote | would | the Tree = tree | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | infinitive | the Tree = tree not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | destine a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | the Tree = tree | glorious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the Tree | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | rejoice | gerund | the Tree not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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