Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 71
What the botanist tells us after a number of imperfect lectures, the flower proclaimed in a minute.
Who acts: botanist · What happens: tell, proclaim · To what, where: us, flower · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (botanist), 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 tells | obj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 botanist | det |
| 3 | botanist | botanist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tells | iobj |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 number | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lectures | case |
| 10 | imperfect | imperfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lectures | amod |
| 11 | lectures | lecture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flower | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flower | det |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lectures | conj |
| 15 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 flower | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 minute | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 minute | det |
| 18 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proclaimed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the botanist | us | after a number of imperfect lectures and the flower | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=Topic | |||
| 2 | proclaim | participle | the flower not said here | minute | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: 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: «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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