Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 91

After this the fir-tree became quite silent and thoughtful; never had the birds in the forest told such tales as "Humpty Dumpty," who fell down stairs, and yet married a princess.

Who acts: fir tree · What happens: become, not have, tell, fall down, marry · To what, where: birds, such tales, forest, stairs, princess · 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), 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	_	6 tree	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tree	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
4	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 fir	punct
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 silent	advmod
9	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thoughtful	cc
11	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 silent	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 had	advmod
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birds	det
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 forest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forest	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	obl
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tales	amod
22	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 told	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 Dumpty	case
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Dumpty	punct
25	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Dumpty	compound
26	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 told	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	parataxis
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 fell	compound:prt
32	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fell	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 married	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 married	cc
35	yet	yet	ADV	_	36 married	advmod
36	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fell	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 princess	det
38	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 married	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the fir tree				silent property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not have	past		the birds				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past		such tales	the forest		as Humpty Dumpty	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
4	fall down	past		stairs				vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stair=Result
5	marry	past		a princess		yet		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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