Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 51
A short time before Christmas, the discontented fir-tree was the first to fall.
Who acts: discontented fir tree · What happens: discontent, be, fall
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 (discontented 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 first | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 Christmas | case |
| 5 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 8 | discontented | discontent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tree | amod |
| 9 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fir | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 first | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 first | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 first | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fall | mark |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 first | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discontent | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the discontented fir tree | time | first property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fall | to-infinitive | the discontented fir tree not said here | vn occur-48.3 «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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