Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 3

Sometimes the children would bring a large basket of raspberries or strawberries, wreathed on a straw, and seat themselves near the fir-tree, and say, "Is it not a pretty little tree?" which made it feel more unhappy than before.

Who acts: children, tree, little tree · What happens: bring, wreathe, say, not be, make, feel · To what, where: large basket, fir tree, raspberries, straw, little tree, tree · 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 (children, tree, little 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 bring	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 basket	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 basket	amod
8	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 raspberries	case
10	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 basket	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 strawberries	cc
12	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 raspberries	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wreathed	punct
14	wreathed	wreathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 raspberries	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 straw	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 straw	det
17	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wreathed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seat	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seat	cc
20	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obl
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	20 seat	nmod:unmarked
22	near	near	ADP	_	26 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
24	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tree	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 fir	punct
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tree	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 tree	punct
32	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 tree	cop
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 tree	nsubj
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 tree	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 tree	det
36	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	37 little	advmod
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tree	amod
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 say	ccomp
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	38 tree	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 tree	punct
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 made	nsubj
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 tree	acl:relcl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 made	obj
44	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 made	xcomp
45	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	46 unhappy	advmod
46	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 feel	xcomp
47	than	than	ADP	_	48 before	case
48	before	before	ADV	_	46 unhappy	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	would	the children	a large basket of raspberries or strawberries	the fir tree	seat children obl; sometimes property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent basket=Theme
2	wreathe	participle		raspberries or strawberries not said here	a straw		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is a in a quote	present	tree	a little tree			tree rules
5	make	past	a little tree	tree			tree rules
6	feel	infinitive	tree not said here			unhappy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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