Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 117

"Happy!" exclaimed the fir-tree, and then as he reflected upon what he had been telling them, he said, "Ah, yes! after all those were happy days."

Who acts: fir tree, number · What happens: exclaim, reflect, tell, say, be · To what, where: birds · 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, number), 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	_	2 Happy	punct
2	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 exclaimed	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Happy	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Happy	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
7	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fir	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reflected	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 reflected	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 reflected	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 reflected	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reflected	nsubj
15	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	conj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 reflected	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 telling	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 telling	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 telling	aux
21	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 what	acl:relcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 telling	iobj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 days	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 days	punct
28	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	37 days	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Ah	punct
30	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	37 days	discourse
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 yes	punct
32	after	after	ADP	_	37 days	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 days	det:predet
34	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 days	det
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 days	cop
36	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 days	amod
37	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 said	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 days	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the fir tree			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	reflect	past	number		then	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · progressive	number	birds = bird		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	say speech: express	past	number			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	past			after all happy days	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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