Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 7
But this was what the Tree could not bear to hear.
Who acts: this, Tree · What happens: be, not bear, hear
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 (this, 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 | _ | 4 what | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tree | det |
| 6 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bear | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 bear | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 bear | advmod |
| 9 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hear | mark |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bear | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not bear | could | the Tree | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | the Tree not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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