Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 99

“What are they about?” thought the Tree.

What happens: think · To what, where: Tree

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: 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thought	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	2 What	case
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tree	det
10	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		the Tree					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=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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