Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 37
"I wonder whether anything so brilliant will ever happen to me," thought the fir-tree. "
Who acts: fir tree, anything · What happens: wonder, happen, think · To what, where: fir 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 (fir tree, anything), 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 | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 happen | mark |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 happen | nsubj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 brilliant | advmod |
| 7 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 anything | amod |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happen | aux |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 happen | advmod |
| 10 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 happen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 happen | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 17 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fir | punct |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | the fir tree = tree | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | future | anything | the fir tree = tree | ever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the fir tree | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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