Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 50

"I am getting beautifully fat," said the pea, "I expect I shall burst at last; no pea could do more that that, I think; I am the most remarkable of all the five which were in the shell."

Who acts: pea · What happens: get, say, expect, burst, do, think · To what, where: pea, last, more, remarkable, shell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pea), 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	_	4 getting	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 getting	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
5	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	6 fat	advmod
6	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 getting	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pea	det
11	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 expect	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 expect	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 expect	nsubj
15	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pea	acl:relcl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 burst	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 burst	aux
18	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 expect	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 burst	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 pea	det
23	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 do	obj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 that	mark
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 more	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 think	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 think	nsubj
31	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 do	parataxis
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 remarkable	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 remarkable	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 remarkable	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 remarkable	det
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 remarkable	advmod
37	remarkable	remarkable	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 five	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 five	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 five	det
41	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 remarkable	nmod
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 shell	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 shell	cop
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 shell	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 shell	det
46	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 five	acl:relcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 remarkable	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 remarkable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · progressive	the pea = pea			fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the pea				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	expect in a quote	present	the pea = pea	the pea not said here			tree rules
4	burst not said to happen, in a quote	shall	the pea = pea		last		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	do in a quote	could	no pea	more			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
6	think speech: other in a quote	present	the pea = pea				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present	the pea = pea	the remarkable		of all five	tree rules
8	is in a quote	past			the shell		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.

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