Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 50

But the tree would not rejoice, though it grew taller every day; and, winter and summer, its dark-green foliage might be seen in the forest, while passers by would say, "What a beautiful tree!"

Who acts: tree, life, passers · What happens: not rejoice, grow, see, say, tree · To what, where: winter, forest · 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, life, passers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 rejoice	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rejoice	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rejoice	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 rejoice	advmod
6	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grew	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 grew	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grew	nsubj
10	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rejoice	conj
11	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 grew	xcomp
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grew	obl:unmarked
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 seen	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 seen	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	nsubj:pass
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 summer	cc
19	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 winter	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 foliage	punct
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 foliage	nmod:poss
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 green	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 dark	punct
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 foliage	amod
25	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 winter	conj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 seen	aux:pass
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rejoice	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 passers	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 passers	mark
34	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seen	conj
35	by	by	SCONJ	_	37 say	mark
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 say	aux
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 passers	acl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tree	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 tree	punct
40	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 tree	nsubj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 tree	det
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tree	amod
43	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 say	ccomp
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 rejoice	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 rejoice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rejoice	would	the tree					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	grow	past	life			day	tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	might · passive		winter and summer and life's green foliage	the forest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	say speech: express	would	passers not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	tree in a quote							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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