Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 100

I can hear nothing in a place like this," and he had time enough to think, for days and nights passed and no one came near him, and when at last somebody did come, it was only to put away large boxes in a corner.

Who acts: I, daylight, days, one, somebody, place · What happens: hear, have, think, pass, come, be · To what, where: nothing, place, corner · 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 (I, daylight, days, one), 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	3 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hear	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 place	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 had	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 think	mark
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 days	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 days	case
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 passed	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nights	cc
23	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 days	conj
24	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 think	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 passed	conj
29	near	near	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 come	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 come	cc
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 come	advmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 somebody	case
35	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 somebody	amod
36	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 come	nsubj
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 come	aux
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hear	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 put	punct
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 put	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 put	cop
42	only	only	ADV	_	44 put	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 put	mark
44	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 come	conj
45	away	away	ADV	_	44 put	advmod
46	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 boxes	amod
47	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 put	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 corner	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 corner	det
50	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 put	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	can	I	nothing	a place like this			tree rules
2	have in a quote	past	daylight			time	enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	daylight not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	pass in a quote	past	days and nights					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come in a quote	past	no one				near daylight	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location
6	come in a quote	past · do-support	somebody					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is in a quote	past	place		a corner		away, put property	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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