Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 21

I think these must have been the trees; I assure you they were stately, very stately."

Who acts: I, swallows · What happens: think, be, assure · To what, where: these, trees, you

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 (I, swallows), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 think	obj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 trees	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 trees	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 trees	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 these	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 assure	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 assure	nsubj
11	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 assure	iobj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stately	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stately	cop
15	stately	stately	ADV	_	11 assure	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stately	punct
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 stately	advmod
18	stately	stately	ADV	_	11 assure	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I	these			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
2	is a	must · perfect		the trees			tree rules
3	assure	present	I		you	stately property	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	past	swallows = swallow			stately 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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