Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 17

The young fir-tree wished very much to know; so in the spring, when the swallows and the storks came, it asked, "Do you know where those trees were taken?

Who acts: young fir tree, swallows, third, you · What happens: wish, know, come, ask, take · To what, where: much, trees · 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 (young fir tree, swallows, third, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tree	amod
3	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fir	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wished	nsubj
6	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wished	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 know	mark
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 much	acl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 spring	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 spring	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 spring	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spring	det
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wished	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 came	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 swallows	det
19	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 came	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 storks	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 storks	det
22	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 swallows	conj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spring	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	nsubj
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wished	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
29	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 know	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asked	ccomp
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 taken	advmod
33	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 trees	det
34	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 taken	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 taken	aux:pass
36	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 know	ccomp
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wish	past	the young fir tree	much	spring	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
2	know	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	past	the swallows and the storks			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	third			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	take in a quote	past · passive		that trees		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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