Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 109
"Oh, it is very cold," said the little mouse, "or else we should be so comfortable here, shouldn't we, you old fir-tree?"
Who acts: mouse, little mouse, we · What happens: be, say, not tree · 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 (mouse, little mouse, we), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 cold | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cold | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cold | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 cold | advmod |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cold | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mouse | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mouse | amod |
| 13 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 comfortable | cc |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 comfortable | advmod |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 comfortable | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 comfortable | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 comfortable | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 comfortable | advmod |
| 22 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cold | conj |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 comfortable | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tree | punct |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 tree | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 tree | advmod |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 tree | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tree | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 tree | nsubj |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tree | amod |
| 31 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tree | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 fir | punct |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cold | obl |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | mouse | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | should | we | here | comfortable, else property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not tree in a quote | should | we | 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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