Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 27

Christmas-time drew near, and many young trees were cut down, some even smaller and younger than the fir-tree who enjoyed neither rest nor peace with longing to leave its forest home.

Who acts: Christmas time, fir tree · What happens: draw, cut down, enjoy, rest, long, leave · To what, where: many young trees, forest

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 (Christmas time, 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	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 time	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Christmas	punct
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	near	near	ADV	_	4 drew	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cut	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cut	cc
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cut	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	aux:pass
12	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 drew	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 smaller	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 smaller	nsubj
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 smaller	advmod
17	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 drew	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 younger	cc
19	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 smaller	conj
20	than	than	ADP	_	24 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
22	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 fir	punct
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smaller	obl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 enjoyed	nsubj
26	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tree	acl:relcl
27	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 rest	cc:preconj
28	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 enjoyed	xcomp
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 peace	cc
30	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rest	conj
31	with	with	SCONJ	_	32 longing	mark
32	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 rest	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 leave	mark
34	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 longing	xcomp
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 forest	nmod:poss
36	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leave	obj
37	home	home	ADV	_	34 leave	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Christmas time		near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cut down	past · passive		many young trees		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	enjoy	past	the fir tree			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	rest	infinitive	the fir tree not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	long	gerund	the fir tree not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fir tree not said here	peace's forest	home property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/27/