Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 155
But at each "pop," which was a deep sigh, the tree was thinking of a summer day in the forest; and of Christmas evening, and of "Humpty Dumpty," the only story it had ever heard or knew how to relate, till at last it was consumed.
Who acts: pop, tree, sigh · What happens: be, think, hear, know, relate, consume · To what, where: deep sigh, only story, sigh, last · 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 (pop, tree, sigh), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 pop | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 pop | case |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 pop | det |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pop | punct |
| 5 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sigh | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sigh | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sigh | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sigh | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sigh | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sigh | amod |
| 12 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pop | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thinking | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thinking | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thinking | aux |
| 17 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sigh | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 20 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 day | compound |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thinking | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 day | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 evening | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 evening | cc |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 evening | case |
| 28 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 evening | compound |
| 29 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pop | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Humpty | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Humpty | cc |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Humpty | case |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Humpty | punct |
| 34 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 evening | nmod |
| 35 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Humpty | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 story | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 story | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 story | det |
| 39 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 story | amod |
| 40 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Humpty | appos |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 heard | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 heard | aux |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 heard | advmod |
| 44 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 story | acl:relcl |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 knew | cc |
| 46 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 heard | conj |
| 47 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 relate | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 relate | mark |
| 49 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 knew | ccomp |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 consumed | punct |
| 51 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 56 consumed | mark |
| 52 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 last | case |
| 53 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 consumed | obl |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 55 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 consumed | aux:pass |
| 56 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 relate | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | each pop | a deep sigh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · progressive | the tree | day | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | sigh | the only story not said here | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | know | past | sigh not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | relate | to-infinitive | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | consume | past · passive | sigh | last | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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