Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 40

We knew that we were rich, for the other trees only wore their green dress in summer, but our family were able to array themselves in green, summer and winter.

Who acts: We, other trees, family · What happens: know, be, wear, array · To what, where: green dress, trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, other trees, family), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 rich	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 rich	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	cop
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wore	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 wore	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trees	amod
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wore	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 wore	advmod
13	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dress	nmod:poss
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dress	amod
16	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wore	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 summer	case
18	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wore	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 able	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 able	cc
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 family	nmod:poss
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 able	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 able	cop
24	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 array	mark
26	array	array	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 able	xcomp
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 array	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 summer	case
29	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 summer	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 green	punct
31	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 array	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 winter	cc
33	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 summer	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	We				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	we			rich property	tree rules
3	wear	past	the other trees	trees's green dress	summer		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
4	is	past	our family			able property	tree rules
5	array	to-infinitive	our family not said here	trees = tree	summer		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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