--- title: Still, as it grew, it complained, "Oh! how I wish I were as tall as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Still, as it grew, it complained, "Oh! how I wish I were as tall as the other trees, then I would spread out my branches on every side, and my top would over-look the wide world. Who acts: tree, top. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/5/) [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/) / 5 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 5 Still, as it grew, it complained, "Oh! how I wish I were as tall as the other trees, then I would spread out my branches on every side, and my top would over-look the wide world. **Who acts:** tree, top · **What happens:** grow, complain, wish, be, spread out, over-look · **To what, where:** branches, side, wide 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 (tree, top), 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:pg27200:33:5 # text = Still, as it grew, it complained, "Oh! how I wish I were as tall as the other trees, then I would spread out my branches on every side, and my top would over-look the wide world. 1 Still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 complained complain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 15 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 over-look over-look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | tree | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | tree | | | | still | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | tree | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | tree | | | | | as the other trees; tall *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **spread out** *in a quote* | would | tree | my branches | | every side | then | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme on side=Destination | | 6 | **over-look** *in a quote* | would | my top | the wide world | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/6/) - ↑ back to [The Fir Tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/33/)