Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 88

But the fir-tree remained quite still, and thought to himself, "Shall I have anything to do with all this?" but he had already amused them as much as they wished.

Who acts: fir tree, shouting, others · What happens: remain, think, have, do, amuse, wish · To what, where: shouting, anything, others · 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 (fir tree, shouting, others), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 remained	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fir	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remained	nsubj
6	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 still	advmod
8	still	still	ADV	_	6 remained	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
11	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 remained	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 thought	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 have	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 anything	acl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 this	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 this	det:predet
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 do	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 amused	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 amused	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 amused	aux
30	already	already	ADV	_	31 amused	advmod
31	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thought	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 amused	obj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	31 amused	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 wished	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wished	nsubj
37	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 much	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the fir tree			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	participle	the fir tree not said here		shouting			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have in a quote	shall	the fir tree = tree	anything				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the fir tree = tree not said here	anything not said here			with this	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	amuse	past · perfect	shouting	others = other				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
6	wish	past	others = other					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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