Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 12
And the willow-tree nodded his head, as if he would say, "Indeed I do."
Who acts: willow tree, tree · What happens: nod, say, do · To what, where: head, Indeed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (willow tree, tree), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nodded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 willow | punct |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nodded | nsubj |
| 6 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nodded | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | aux |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nodded | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Indeed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Indeed | punct |
| 17 | Indeed | indeed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 say | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Indeed | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nodded | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the willow tree | tree's head | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | would | tree | Indeed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent indeed=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | tree | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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