Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 62
People that saw him said, “What a fine tree!” and towards Christmas he was one of the first that was cut down.
Who acts: People, Tree · What happens: see, say, be, cut down · To what, where: Tree, one, that · 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 (People, 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 8 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 11 tree | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 one | cc |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 Christmas | case |
| 16 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 one | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | cop |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 first | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 first | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cut | aux:pass |
| 25 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 first | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 cut | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | People | Tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | People | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Tree | one | towards Christmas; of the first | tree rules | |||
| 4 | cut down | past · passive | that | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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