Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 69

I wonder if the sparrows will peep in at the windows as they fly? shall I grow faster here, and keep on all these ornaments summer and winter?"

Who acts: I, sparrows · What happens: wonder, peep, fly, grow, keep

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, sparrows), 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	2 wonder	nsubj
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 peep	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sparrows	det
5	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 peep	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 peep	aux
7	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wonder	ccomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 peep	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 windows	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 windows	det
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 peep	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 fly	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fly	nsubj
14	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 peep	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 grow	punct
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 grow	aux
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 grow	nsubj
18	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wonder	conj
19	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 grow	advmod
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 grow	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 keep	cc
23	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 wonder	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	28 summer	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 summer	det:predet
26	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 summer	det
27	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 summer	compound
28	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 winter	cc
30	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 summer	conj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	peep a condition, not said to happen	future	the sparrows			at the windows	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
3	fly	present	sparrows = sparrow				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	shall	I	here		fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	infinitive	I not said here		summer		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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