Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 49
The young fir trees in the forest began to long for Christmas, but it was a long time to Christmas yet.
Who acts: young fir trees, forest · What happens: begin, be · To what, where: long time
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young fir trees, forest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trees | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trees | amod |
| 3 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | compound |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | nmod |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 long | mark |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 began | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Christmas | case |
| 12 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 began | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 time | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 time | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 time | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 Christmas | mark |
| 21 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 time | advcl |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 time | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the young fir trees in the forest | for Christmas; long property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | forest | a long time | yet | tree rules |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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