Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 64

He well knew that he should never see his dear old comrades, the little bushes and flowers around him, anymore; perhaps not even the birds!

Who acts: Tree · What happens: know, not see · To what, where: birds, dear old comrades · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 knew	advmod
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 comrades	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 comrades	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 comrades	amod
12	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bushes	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bushes	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bushes	amod
16	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 comrades	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flowers	cc
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 comrades	conj
19	around	around	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 anymore	punct
22	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	8 see	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 birds	punct
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	28 birds	advmod
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 birds	advmod
26	even	even	ADV	_	28 birds	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 birds	det
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knew	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Tree	the birds				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not see	should	Tree	Tree's dear old comrades and the little bushes and flowers				around Christmas; anymore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comrade=Stimulus

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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