Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 58

"That seems very poor consolation," said one of the plants in the room, that grew in a pot.

Who acts: That, one, room · What happens: seem, say, grow · To what, where: poor consolation, pot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, one, room), 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	_	3 seems	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 consolation	amod
6	consolation	consolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seems	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 said	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 plants	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 plants	det
13	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plants	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 room	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 pot	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pot	det
22	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grew	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seem in a quote	present	That	poor consolation		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme consolation=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	one of the plants in the room			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grow	past	the room		a pot	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pot=Location

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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