Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 53

It knew that it should never again see its dear old companions, the trees, nor the little bushes and many-colored flowers that had grown by its side; perhaps not even the birds.

Who acts: home, colored flowers · What happens: know, not see, color, grow · To what, where: little bushes, dear old companions · 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 (home, colored flowers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 see	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	ccomp
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 companions	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 companions	amod
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 companions	amod
12	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trees	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 companions	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bushes	punct
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 bushes	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bushes	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bushes	amod
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flowers	cc
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 colored	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 many	punct
24	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 flowers	amod
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bushes	conj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 grown	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 grown	aux
28	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 flowers	acl:relcl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 side	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 side	nmod:poss
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grown	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 birds	punct
33	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	37 birds	advmod
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 birds	advmod
35	even	even	ADV	_	37 birds	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 birds	det
37	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	home	the little bushes and colored flowers		the birds obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not see	should	home	home's dear old companions and the trees	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer companion=Stimulus
3	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past · perfect	colored flowers			by home's side	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=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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