--- title: Now I shall live," cried the tree, joyfully spreading out its branch… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Now I shall live," cried the tree, joyfully spreading out its branches; but alas! they were all withered and yellow, and it lay in a corner amongst weeds and nettles. Who acts: I, mate. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/144/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/) / 144 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 144 Now I shall live," cried the tree, joyfully spreading out its branches; but alas! they were all withered and yellow, and it lay in a corner amongst weeds and nettles. **Who acts:** I, mate · **What happens:** live, cry, spread out, wither, lie · **To what, where:** tree, branches, alas, corner · **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 (I, mate), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:33:144 # text = Now I shall live," cried the tree, joyfully spreading out its branches; but alas! they were all withered and yellow, and it lay in a corner amongst weeds and nettles. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 joyfully joyfully ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 spreading spread VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 alas ala NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 withered wither VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 weeds weed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 nettles nettle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | shall | I | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | | the tree | | | now | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | | 3 | **spread out** *in a quote* | gerund | | mate's branches | | | | joyfully *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme | | 4 | **wither** *in a quote* | past · passive | | alas | | | | all *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **lie** *in a quote* | past | mate | | | a corner amongst weeds and nettles | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/143/) - next →: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/145/) - ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/)