Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 83
"I am only speaking of a story of my dream," replied the flower.
Who acts: flower, my · What happens: speak, reply, dream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11824): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 speaking | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 speaking | advmod |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaking | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 dream | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dream | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaking | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaking | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 flower | det |
| 16 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · progressive | the flower = flower | of a story of my dream | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the flower | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | dream in a quote | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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