Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 13

But the buckwheat spread itself out with pride, and said, "Stupid tree; he is so old that grass grows out of his body."

Who acts: buckwheat, tree, grass · What happens: spread out, say, be, grow out · To what, where: buckwheat, body · 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 (buckwheat, tree, grass), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 spread	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 buckwheat	det
3	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 spread	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 spread	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 pride	case
8	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tree	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 tree	punct
14	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 old	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 old	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 old	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 old	advmod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spread	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 grows	mark
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grows	nsubj
23	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 old	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 body	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 body	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 body	nmod:poss
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grows	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread out	past	the buckwheat	buckwheat	with pride	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the buckwheat not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	tree		old property	tree rules
4	grow out in a quote	present	grass	tree's body		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme

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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