Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 42
Oh! that I were now laid on the wagon, or standing in the warm room, with all that brightness and splendor around me!
What happens: lay, stand · To what, where: I, wagon, warm room
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: 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 laid | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 laid | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laid | aux:pass |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 laid | advmod |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 wagon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wagon | det |
| 10 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 standing | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 standing | cc |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 laid | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 16 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 room | amod |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brightness | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 brightness | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 brightness | det:predet |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 brightness | det |
| 22 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 splendor | cc |
| 24 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brightness | conj |
| 25 | around | around | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 brightness | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · passive | I | the wagon | now | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wagon=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the warm room | with all brightness around me and splendor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
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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