Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 99
What does this mean?" thought the tree, "what am I to do here?
Who acts: this, I · What happens: mean, think, be, do · To what, where: tree · 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 (this, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 what | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 what | acl |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 do | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the tree | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tree=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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