Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 26
And the wind kissed the tree, and the dew watered it with tears; but the fir-tree regarded them not.
Who acts: wind, dew, fir tree · What happens: kiss, water, not regard · To what, where: tree, wind, tears
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 (wind, dew, fir tree), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kissed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 watered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watered | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dew | det |
| 10 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watered | nsubj |
| 11 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watered | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tears | case |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 watered | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 regarded | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 regarded | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 fir | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 regarded | nsubj |
| 21 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 regarded | obj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 regarded | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the wind | the tree | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | water | past | the dew | wind | with tears | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with tear=Theme | |||
| 3 | not regard | past | the fir tree | tears = tear | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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