Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 150

It thought of its fresh youth in the forest, of the merry Christmas evening, and of the little mice who had listened to the story of "Humpty Dumpty." "

Who acts: garden, little mice · What happens: think, listen

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 (garden, little mice), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 youth	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 youth	nmod:poss
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youth	amod
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 youth	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 evening	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 evening	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 evening	det
13	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 evening	amod
14	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 evening	compound
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 youth	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mice	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mice	cc
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 mice	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mice	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mice	amod
21	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	ccomp
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 listened	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 listened	aux
24	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 mice	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 story	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 story	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 listened	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Dumpty	case
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Dumpty	punct
30	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Dumpty	compound
31	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 story	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 mice	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 mice	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 mice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	garden					of garden's fresh youth in the forest and the merry Christmas evening	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	past · perfect	the little mice					to the story of Humpty Dumpty	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to story=Theme

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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