Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 25
"That match I made up!" said the Thistle; and he thought of the flower he had given for the buttonhole.
Who acts: Thistle, One · What happens: make up, say, think, give · To what, where: match, flower · 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, One), 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:pg27200:12842): 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 made | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 match | det |
| 3 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 made | compound:prt |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Thistle | det |
| 11 | Thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 flower | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flower | det |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 given | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 flower | acl:relcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 buttonhole | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 buttonhole | det |
| 24 | buttonhole | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up in a quote | past | the Thistle = thistle | that match | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme match=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Thistle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | One | of the flower | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect | One | the flower not said here | for the buttonhole | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for buttonhole=Asset |
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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