Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 84

"Now we shall be in the green shade," said the man, as he seated himself under it, "and the tree will have the pleasure of hearing also, but I shall only relate one story; what shall it be?

Who acts: we, green shade, man, tree, shade · What happens: be, say, seat, have, relate, please · To what, where: green shade, man, shade, pleasure, one story, hearing · 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 (we, green shade, man, tree), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 shade	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 shade	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 shade	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 shade	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 shade	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 shade	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shade	det
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shade	amod
9	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shade	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 shade	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 seated	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seated	nsubj
18	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 seated	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seated	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seated	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 seated	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seated	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pleasure	det
30	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 hearing	case
32	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pleasure	nmod
33	also	also	ADV	_	28 have	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 relate	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 relate	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 relate	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 relate	aux
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 relate	advmod
39	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 story	nummod
41	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 relate	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 be	punct
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 be	obj
44	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 be	aux
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 be	nsubj
46	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 relate	conj
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is in a quote	shall	we		the green shade	now	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the green shade	the man			tree rules
3	seat	past	man	man	shade		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
4	have in a quote	future	the tree	the pleasure of hearing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
5	relate in a quote	shall	the green shade = shade	one story			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
6	be in a quote	shall	shade				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
7	please in a quote			hearing			nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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