Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 7
The tree was so discontented, that it took no pleasure in the warm sunshine, the birds, or the rosy clouds that floated over it morning and evening.
Who acts: it, rosy clouds · What happens: discontent, take, float · To what, where: tree, pleasure, warm sunshine
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 (it, rosy clouds), 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 | 5 discontented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discontented | aux:pass |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 discontented | advmod |
| 5 | discontented | discontent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 took | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 discontented | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 pleasure | det |
| 11 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sunshine | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sunshine | det |
| 14 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sunshine | amod |
| 15 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 birds | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 birds | det |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sunshine | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clouds | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 clouds | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 clouds | det |
| 22 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 clouds | amod |
| 23 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 floated | nsubj |
| 25 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 clouds | acl:relcl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 floated | obl |
| 28 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 floated | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 evening | cc |
| 30 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 morning | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 discontented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discontent | past · passive | the tree | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | past | it | no pleasure | the warm sunshine and the birds | the rosy clouds obl | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in sunshine=Location | ||
| 3 | float | past | the rosy clouds | pleasure | morning | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |
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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