Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 20
"I am something more than I knew of," said the Thistle to itself. "
Who acts: Thistle · What happens: be, know, say · To what, where: something, Thistle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thistle), 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 something | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 something | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 said | nsubj |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 something | amod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 knew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Thistle | det |
| 14 | Thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 itself | case |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Thistle = thistle | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | past | the Thistle = thistle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Thistle | Thistle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient |
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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