Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 52
I am now tall, and my branches spread like the others that were carried off last year!
Who acts: I, branches · What happens: be, spread, carry off · To what, where: others
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 (I, branches), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tall | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tall | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tall | advmod |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spread | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spread | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 branches | nmod:poss |
| 8 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spread | nsubj |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tall | conj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 others | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 others | det |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spread | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | aux:pass |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 others | acl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 carried | compound:prt |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 year | amod |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | now | tall property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spread | present | my branches | like the others | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past · passive | the others | year | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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