Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 151

Past! past!" said the old tree; "Oh, had I but enjoyed myself while I could have done so! but now it is too late."

Who acts: past, I · What happens: say, have, enjoy, do, be · To what, where: old tree, I, myself · 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 (past, 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	Past	past	ADV	_	3 past	advmod
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Past	punct
3	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 past	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 past	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	14 had	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Oh	punct
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	obj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 enjoyed	cc
17	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
18	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 enjoyed	obj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 done	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 enjoyed	advcl
24	so	so	ADV	_	23 done	advmod
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 done	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 late	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 late	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 late	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 late	cop
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 late	advmod
31	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 done	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	past	the old tree			tree rules
2	have	past		I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	enjoy	past		myself			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus
4	do	could · perfect	I				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	past		now	late 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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