Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 114

"I know nothing of that place," said the fir-tree, "but I know the wood where the sun shines and the birds sing."

Who acts: fir tree, sun, birds · What happens: know, say, shine, sing · To what, where: nothing, wood · 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 (fir tree, sun, birds), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 know	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 fir	punct
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	obj
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 shines	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun	det
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shines	nsubj
25	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sing	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 birds	det
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sing	nsubj
29	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 shines	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	the fir tree = tree	nothing	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the fir tree		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	the fir tree = tree	the wood	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus
4	shine in a quote	present	the sun		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sing speech: express in a quote	present	the birds		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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