Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 144

Now I shall live," cried the tree, joyfully spreading out its branches; but alas! they were all withered and yellow, and it lay in a corner amongst weeds and nettles.

Who acts: I, mate · What happens: live, cry, spread out, wither, lie · To what, where: tree, branches, alas, corner · 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 (I, mate), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cried	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 live	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Now	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spreading	punct
11	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	12 spreading	advmod
12	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 spreading	compound:prt
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 branches	nmod:poss
15	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spreading	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 withered	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 alas	cc
18	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 withered	nsubj:pass
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 alas	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 withered	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 withered	aux:pass
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 withered	advmod
23	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cried	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 yellow	cc
25	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 withered	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lay	nsubj
29	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 corner	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 corner	det
32	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obl
33	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	34 weeds	case
34	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 corner	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 nettles	cc
36	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 weeds	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	shall	I					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past		the tree		now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic
3	spread out in a quote	gerund		mate's branches			joyfully property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme
4	wither in a quote	past · passive		alas			all property	tree rules
5	lie in a quote	past	mate		a corner amongst weeds and nettles			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location

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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