Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 119

"I am not old at all," replied the tree, "I only came from the forest this winter, I am now checked in my growth."

Who acts: old, my · What happens: not be, reply, come, check, grow · To what, where: all, tree, forest, old, growth · 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 (old, my), 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	_	5 old	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 old	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 replied	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 old	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 winter	det
22	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 checked	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 checked	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 checked	aux:pass
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 checked	advmod
27	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 replied	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 growth	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 growth	nmod:poss
30	growth	growth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 checked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 checked	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	old		all		old property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	old	the tree				tree rules
3	come in a quote	past	old		the forest	winter		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location
4	check in a quote	present · passive		old	my growth	now		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	grow in a quote		my					nom growth «process intransitive»: poss=agent

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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