Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 105
Still I wish this place were not so dark, as well as lonely, with not even a little hare to look at.
Who acts: I · What happens: wish, not be, be, look · To what, where: place
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), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 wish | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dark | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wish | obj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dark | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dark | advmod |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 dark | advmod |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lonely | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 14 lonely | cc |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 14 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dark | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hare | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 hare | case |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 hare | advmod |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 hare | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hare | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hare | amod |
| 21 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lonely | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hare | acl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 look | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | this place | still | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is | past | dark property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | with a little hare | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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