Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 19

These were as tall as they would ever be; but the tree grew every year, and enjoyed the air and the sunshine, and drank the dew and the rain.

Who acts: These, tree · What happens: be, grow, enjoy, drink · To what, where: air, dew

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 tall	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 would	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 would	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	advcl
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 be	advmod
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 would	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grew	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 grew	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	nsubj
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	parataxis
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 year	det
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grew	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 enjoyed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 enjoyed	cc
19	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grew	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 enjoyed	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sunshine	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sunshine	det
24	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 air	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drank	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drank	cc
27	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 grew	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dew	det
29	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drank	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rain	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rain	det
32	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dew	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	These			tall property	tree rules
2	be	infinitive	These not said here		ever		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	the tree		year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	enjoy	past	the tree not said here	the air and the sunshine			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus
5	drink	past	the tree not said here	the dew and the rain			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dew=Patient

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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