Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 72
It trembled so with joy in all its branches, that one of the candles fell among the green leaves and burnt some of them. "
Who acts: blaze, one · What happens: tremble, fall · To what, where: branches, green leaves
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 (blaze, one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 trembled | nsubj |
| 2 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 trembled | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trembled | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 branches | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 branches | det:predet |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 branches | nmod:poss |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trembled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 candles | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 candles | det |
| 15 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | obl |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trembled | parataxis |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 leaves | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 leaves | det |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leaves | amod |
| 20 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 burnt | cc |
| 22 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leaves | amod |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 burnt | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 some | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembled | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | blaze | blaze's branches | with joy | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | that one | the green leaves | of the candles | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among leaf=Location |
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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