Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 10
Yet it remained unsatisfied, and would exclaim, "Oh, if I could but keep on growing tall and old!
Who acts: hare · What happens: remain, exclaim, keep, grow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (hare), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 remained | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unsatisfied | unsatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remained | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaim | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 exclaim | cc |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaim | aux |
| 8 | exclaim | exclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remained | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 could | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 could | punct |
| 11 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 could | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oh | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 could | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaim | parataxis |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 keep | cc |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exclaim | conj |
| 18 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 19 growing | mark |
| 19 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 growing | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 old | cc |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tall | conj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | hare | unsatisfied property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | would | hare not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | infinitive | hare not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grow in a quote | gerund | hare not said here | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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