Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 60
How the fir-tree trembled! "
Who acts: fir tree · What happens: tremble
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 (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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 trembled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fir | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trembled | nsubj |
| 6 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 trembled | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | participle | the fir tree | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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