Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 12

In the autumn, as usual, the wood-cutters came and cut down several of the tallest trees, and the young fir-tree, which was now grown to its full height, shuddered as the noble trees fell to the earth with a crash.

Who acts: wood cutters, noble trees · What happens: come, cut down, grow, shudder, fall · To what, where: young fir tree

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 (wood cutters, noble trees), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 autumn	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 autumn	det
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 autumn	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 usual	case
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 autumn	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 autumn	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cutters	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cutters	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 wood	punct
11	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cut	cc
14	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 came	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 cut	compound:prt
16	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cut	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 trees	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
19	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 trees	amod
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 several	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tree	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tree	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tree	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tree	amod
25	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tree	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 fir	punct
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grown	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 grown	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 grown	aux:pass
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 grown	advmod
32	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 tree	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 height	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 height	nmod:poss
35	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 height	amod
36	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grown	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shuddered	punct
38	shuddered	shudder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 height	conj
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 fell	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 trees	det
41	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 trees	amod
42	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 fell	nsubj
43	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 shuddered	advcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 earth	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 earth	det
46	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fell	obl
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 crash	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 crash	det
49	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 earth	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the wood cutters	the young fir tree	autumn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut down	participle	the wood cutters not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	grow	past · passive		the young fir tree	now	to hare's full height result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to height=Result
4	shudder	participle					vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	fall	past	the noble trees			to the earth with a crash	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme

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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