Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 35
"And then," asked the fir-tree, trembling through all its branches, "and then what happens?"
Who acts: fir tree · What happens: ask, tremble, happen · To what, where: branches · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 then | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 asked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fir | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trembling | punct |
| 12 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | advcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 branches | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 branches | det:predet |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 branches | nmod:poss |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 trembling | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 happens | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 happens | advmod |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 happens | nsubj |
| 22 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 happens | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the fir tree | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | the fir tree not said here | middle's branches | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through branch=Location | ||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | present | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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