Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 86
I wonder if I shall take root here, and winter and summer stand covered with ornaments!”
Who acts: I · What happens: wonder, take, cover · To what, where: root, winter
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 7 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 take | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 covered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 covered | cc |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 summer | cc |
| 13 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 winter | conj |
| 14 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 covered | aux:pass |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wonder | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 ornaments | case |
| 17 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take a condition, not said to happen | shall | I | root | here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | |||
| 3 | cover | present · passive | winter and summer | with ornaments | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ornament=Theme |
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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