Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 124
And the fir-tree thought of the pretty little birch-tree that grew in the forest, which was to him a real beautiful princess.
Who acts: pretty little birch tree, forest · What happens: grow, be, think · To what, where: forest, pretty little birch 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 (pretty little birch tree, forest), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thought | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thought | det |
| 3 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fir | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | compound |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 11 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 birch | punct |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tree | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 him | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 him | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 him | cop |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 forest | nmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 princess | det |
| 25 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 princess | amod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 princess | amod |
| 27 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 him | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the pretty little birch tree | the forest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the forest | to Humpty | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think | the pretty little birch tree | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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