Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 5

The children often came with a whole pitcher full of berries, or a long row of them threaded on a straw, and sat down near the young tree and said, “Oh, how pretty he is!

Who acts: children, he · What happens: come, thread, sit down, say, be · To what, where: long row, young 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 (children, he), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 pitcher	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pitcher	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pitcher	amod
8	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pitcher	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 berries	case
11	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 row	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 row	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 row	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 row	amod
16	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pitcher	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 row	nmod
19	threaded	thread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 row	acl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 straw	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 straw	det
22	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threaded	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 sat	compound:prt
27	near	near	ADP	_	30 tree	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tree	amod
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sat	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 is	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 is	punct
35	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	40 is	discourse
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Oh	punct
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 pretty	advmod
38	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	40 is	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 is	nsubj
40	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 said	ccomp
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the children			with a whole pitcher or a long row of firs; often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	thread	participle		a long row of firs not said here		on a straw	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on straw=Co-Patient
3	sit down	past			the young tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near tree=Location
4	say speech: express	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	be in a quote	present	he			pretty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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