Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 67
Oh, that the evening were come," thought the tree, "and the tapers lighted! then I shall know what else is going to happen.
Who acts: evening, tapers · What happens: come, think, light, know, go, happen · To what, where: tree, tapers · 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 (evening, tapers), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tapers | det |
| 17 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 know | nsubj |
| 18 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tapers | acl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 lighted | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 know | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 going | nsubj |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 what | advmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 know | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 happen | mark |
| 29 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 going | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the evening not said here | the tree | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | light | participle | the tapers not said here | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | shall | the tapers | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | present · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | happen | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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