Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 61
But the Tree did not rejoice at all; he grew and grew, and was green both winter and summer.
Who acts: Tree · What happens: not rejoice, grow, be · To what, where: all
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 rejoice | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tree | det |
| 3 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoice | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoice | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 rejoice | advmod |
| 6 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 rejoice | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoice | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grew | cc |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grew | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 green | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 green | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 green | cop |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | conj |
| 18 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 19 winter | cc:preconj |
| 19 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 green | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 summer | cc |
| 21 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 winter | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rejoice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rejoice | past · do-support | the Tree | all | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | Tree not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Tree not said here | green property | tree rules |
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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