Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 102
It is winter now," thought the tree, "the ground is hard and covered with snow, so that people cannot plant me.
Who acts: sight, ground, people · What happens: be, think, cover, not plant · To what, where: winter, tree, me · 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 (sight, ground, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 winter | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 winter | cop |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 winter | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 now | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 winter | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hard | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hard | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hard | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | cop |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 covered | cc |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hard | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 snow | case |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 plant | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 plant | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 plant | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 plant | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 plant | advmod |
| 26 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | parataxis |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 plant | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sight | winter | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the tree | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tree=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the ground | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | the ground not said here | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not plant | can | people | me | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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