Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 6

I should have the birds building their nests on my boughs, and when the wind blew, I should bow with stately dignity like my tall companions."

Who acts: I, birds, wind · What happens: have, build, blow, bow · To what, where: birds, nests, boughs

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 (I, birds, wind), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	building	build	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 birds	acl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nests	nmod:poss
8	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 building	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 boughs	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 boughs	nmod:poss
11	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 building	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bow	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bow	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 blew	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wind	det
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blew	nsubj
17	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bow	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 blew	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bow	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bow	aux
21	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 dignity	case
23	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dignity	amod
24	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bow	obl
25	like	like	ADP	_	28 companions	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 companions	nmod:poss
27	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 companions	amod
28	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bow	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	should	I	the birds			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
2	build	gerund	the birds not said here	birds's nests	my boughs		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on bough=Source
3	blow	past	the wind				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	bow	should	I			with stately dignity; like my tall companions	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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