Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 93

Ah! well," he thought, "who knows? perhaps I may fall down too, and marry a princess;" and he looked forward joyfully to the next evening, expecting to be again decked out with lights and playthings, gold and fruit. "

Who acts: Dumpty, I · What happens: think, know, fall down, marry, look, expect · To what, where: 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 (Dumpty, I), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 thought	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 thought	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 fall	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 fall	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	aux
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 knows	ccomp
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 fall	compound:prt
18	too	too	ADV	_	16 fall	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 marry	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 marry	cc
21	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fall	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 marry	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
29	forward	forward	ADV	_	28 looked	advmod
30	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	34 evening	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 evening	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 evening	det
33	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 evening	amod
34	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looked	obl:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 expecting	punct
36	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 looked	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	40 decked	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 decked	aux:pass
39	again	again	ADV	_	40 decked	advmod
40	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 expecting	ccomp
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 decked	compound:prt
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 lights	case
43	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 decked	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 playthings	cc
45	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 lights	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 gold	punct
47	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lights	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fruit	cc
49	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gold	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past	Dumpty			well property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	fall down	may	I			perhaps property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	marry	infinitive	I not said here	a princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
5	look in a quote	past	Dumpty		evening	forward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	expect in a quote	gerund	Dumpty not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	deck out not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	Dumpty not said here		again	with lights and playthings and gold and fruit	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with light=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/93/