Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 143

The linden-trees were in blossom; while the swallows flew here and there, crying, "Twit, twit, twit, my mate is coming,"--but it was not the fir-tree they meant. "

Who acts: linden trees, swallows, mate, fir tree · What happens: be, fly, cry, come, not be, mean · To what, where: blossom, Twit, fir tree · 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 (linden trees, swallows, mate, fir tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
2	linden	linden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 linden	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 meant	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 blossom	case
7	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 were	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 flew	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 flew	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 swallows	det
11	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flew	nsubj
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 were	parataxis
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 flew	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 there	cc
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 here	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crying	punct
17	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 flew	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Twit	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Twit	punct
20	Twit	twit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crying	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 twit	punct
22	twit	twit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Twit	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 twit	punct
24	twit	twit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Twit	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 coming	punct
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mate	nmod:poss
27	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 coming	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 coming	aux
29	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 crying	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 coming	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 coming	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 meant	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 tree	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tree	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 tree	cop
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 tree	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tree	det
38	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tree	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 fir	punct
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 meant	nsubj
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 meant	nsubj
42	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 meant	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	the linden trees		blossom	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blossom=Location
2	fly	past	the swallows		here	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	gerund	the swallows not said here	Twit and twit and twit		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twit=Topic
4	come in a quote	present · progressive	my mate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is a	past	mate	the fir tree		tree rules
6	mean	past	the fir tree			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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