Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 92

"Ah! yes, so it happens in the world," thought the fir-tree; he believed it all, because it was related by such a nice man. "

Who acts: it, fir tree, Dumpty, world · What happens: happen, think, believe, be · To what, where: world · 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 (it, fir tree, Dumpty, world), 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	_	14 thought	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 happens	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Ah	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 happens	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 happens	nsubj
8	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happens	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 happens	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 happens	punct
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
16	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tree	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 fir	punct
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 believed	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 believed	nsubj
21	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 believed	obj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 it	det
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 related	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 related	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 related	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 related	cop
28	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 believed	parataxis
29	by	by	ADP	_	33 man	case
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 man	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 related	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen in a quote	present	it		the world		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location
2	think speech: other	past	the fir tree				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	believe	past	Dumpty	world			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is	past	world			by such nice man; related property	tree rules

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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