Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 138
“Thus it is,” said the little maiden in the tree, “some call me 'Old Nanny,' others a 'Dryad,' but, in reality, my name is 'Remembrance'; 'tis I who sit in the tree that grows and grows!
Who acts: story, some, name, I, tree, my · What happens: be, say, call, sit, grow, name · To what, where: me, Remembrance, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, some, name, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maiden | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 maiden | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 call | nsubj |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 call | obj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Nanny | punct |
| 20 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Nanny | amod |
| 21 | Nanny | Nanny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 call | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 others | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 others | punct |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 call | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Dryad | det |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Dryad | punct |
| 27 | Dryad | dryad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 others | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Dryad | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Dryad | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 reality | cc |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reality | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 reality | case |
| 33 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Dryad | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Remembrance | punct |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 name | nmod:poss |
| 36 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Remembrance | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 Remembrance | cop |
| 38 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 Remembrance | punct |
| 39 | Remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Dryad | appos |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 Remembrance | punct |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 tis | punct |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 tis | punct |
| 43 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 call | conj |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 sit | nsubj |
| 45 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 sit | nsubj |
| 46 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 tis | acl:relcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 tree | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 tree | det |
| 49 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sit | obl |
| 50 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 grows | nsubj |
| 51 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 tree | acl:relcl |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 grows | cc |
| 53 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 grows | conj |
| 54 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | story | thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | some | me | Old Nanny obl; others a Dryad but reality obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | my name | Remembrance | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit in a quote | present | I | the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||||
| 6 | grow in a quote | present | the tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | grow in a quote | present | the tree not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | name in a quote | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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