Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 55

The tree first recovered itself while being unpacked in the courtyard of a house, with several other trees; and it heard a man say, "We only want one, and this is the prettiest."

Who acts: tree, journey, man, We, this · What happens: recover, unpack, hear, say, want, be · To what, where: journey, courtyard, one · 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, journey, man, We), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recovered	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 recovered	advmod
4	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 recovered	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 unpacked	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 unpacked	aux:pass
8	unpacked	unpack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 recovered	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 courtyard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 courtyard	det
11	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unpacked	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 courtyard	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trees	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 trees	case
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trees	amod
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trees	amod
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 unpacked	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 heard	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 heard	nsubj
23	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	nsubj
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 heard	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 want	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 want	punct
29	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 want	nsubj
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 want	advmod
31	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 say	parataxis
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 want	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 prettiest	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 prettiest	cc
35	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 prettiest	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 prettiest	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 prettiest	det
38	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 heard	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 recovered	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recover	past	the tree	journey		first property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
2	unpack	gerund · passive	the tree not said here		the courtyard of a house	with several other trees	tree rules
3	hear	past	journey				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	a man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	want in a quote	present	We	one			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	this			pretty property	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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