Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 5
Still, as it grew, it complained, "Oh! how I wish I were as tall as the other trees, then I would spread out my branches on every side, and my top would over-look the wide world.
Who acts: tree, top · What happens: grow, complain, wish, be, spread out, over-look · To what, where: branches, side, wide world · 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 (tree, top), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 8 complained | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 grew | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 complained | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 complained | nsubj |
| 8 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 complained | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wish | punct |
| 11 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 wish | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oh | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 wish | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 complained | parataxis |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tall | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tall | cop |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 tall | advmod |
| 19 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wish | ccomp |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 trees | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 trees | amod |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tall | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spread | punct |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 spread | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 spread | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 spread | aux |
| 28 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 complained | advcl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 spread | compound:prt |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 branches | nmod:poss |
| 31 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 spread | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 side | case |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 side | det |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spread | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 over-look | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 over-look | cc |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 top | nmod:poss |
| 38 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 over-look | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 over-look | aux |
| 40 | over-look | over-look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 complained | parataxis |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 42 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 world | amod |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 over-look | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | complain speech: other | past | tree | still | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | tree | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | tree | as the other trees; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spread out in a quote | would | tree | my branches | every side | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme on side=Destination | ||
| 6 | over-look in a quote | would | my top | the wide world | tree rules |
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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