Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 129
"Only one," replied the fir-tree; "I heard it on the happiest evening of my life; but I did not know I was so happy at the time."
Who acts: one, I · What happens: reply, hear, not know, be · To what, where: fir tree, less · 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 (one, I), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 one | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fir | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 evening | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 evening | det |
| 18 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 evening | amod |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 evening | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 know | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 know | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 know | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 know | advmod |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 happy | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 happy | cop |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 happy | advmod |
| 32 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 know | ccomp |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 happy | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | one | the fir tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | past | I | less | evening | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | I | time | happy property | 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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