Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 3
"I expect a great deal from you," said the rose-tree. "
Who acts: rose tree · What happens: expect, say · To what, where: great deal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 expect | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 expect | nsubj |
| 3 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deal | amod |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expect | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 deal | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 expect | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 expect | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 13 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect in a quote | present | the rose tree = tree | a great deal | from you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the rose tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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