Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 149

And the tree saw all the fresh bright flowers in the garden, and then looked at itself, and wished it had remained in the dark corner of the garret.

Who acts: tree · What happens: see, look, wish, remain · To what, where: fresh bright flowers, garden, dark 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 flowers	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flowers	det
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flowers	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looked	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 looked	advmod
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 itself	case
18	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wished	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wished	cc
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 remained	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 remained	aux
24	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 wished	ccomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 corner	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 corner	det
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 corner	amod
28	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 remained	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 garret	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 garret	det
31	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 corner	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the tree	all fresh bright flowers	the garden			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
2	look	past	the tree not said here			then	at garden	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at itself=Theme
3	wish	past	the tree not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	remain	past · perfect · passive		garden	the dark corner of the garret			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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