Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 59
“Rejoice in our presence!” said the Air and the Sunlight.
Who acts: Air · What happens: rejoice, say · To what, where: presence · 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 (Air), 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 | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 2 | Rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 presence | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 presence | nmod:poss |
| 5 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rejoice | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rejoice | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Air | det |
| 10 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Sunlight | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sunlight | det |
| 13 | Sunlight | Sunlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Air | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice in a quote | infinitive | our presence | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Air and the Sunlight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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