Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 74

After this, the tree tried not to tremble at all, though the fire frightened him; he was so anxious not to hurt any of the beautiful ornaments, even while their brilliancy dazzled him.

Who acts: tree, fire, brilliancy · What happens: try, not tremble, frighten, be, not hurt, dazzle · To what, where: all, danger, any

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 (tree, fire, brilliancy), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tried	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tremble	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tremble	mark
9	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 tremble	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 frightened	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 frightened	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 frightened	nsubj
16	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tremble	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 frightened	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 anxious	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 anxious	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 anxious	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 anxious	advmod
22	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tried	parataxis
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 hurt	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hurt	mark
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 anxious	advcl
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 hurt	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 ornaments	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ornaments	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ornaments	amod
30	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 any	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dazzled	punct
32	even	even	ADV	_	36 dazzled	advmod
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 dazzled	mark
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 brilliancy	nmod:poss
35	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dazzled	nsubj
36	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hurt	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 dazzled	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	the tree			after this		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not tremble not said to happen	to-infinitive	the tree not said here		all			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
3	frighten	past	the fire	danger				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	is	past	fire				anxious property	tree rules
5	not hurt	to-infinitive	fire not said here	any				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Patient
6	dazzle	past	ornaments's brilliancy	danger				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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