Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 27
"I shall certainly be transplanted into the garden," thought the Thistle, "and perhaps put into a pot, which crowds one in.
Who acts: Thistle · What happens: transplant, think, put · To what, where: Thistle, garden, pot · 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 | _ | 6 transplanted | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 transplanted | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 transplanted | aux |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 transplanted | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 transplanted | aux:pass |
| 6 | transplanted | transplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thought | parataxis |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 transplanted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 transplanted | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Thistle | det |
| 14 | Thistle | Thistle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Thistle | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Thistle | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 19 put | advmod |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thought | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 crowds | punct |
| 24 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 25 crowds | det |
| 25 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pot | conj |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 crowds | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 one | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transplant in a quote | shall · passive | the Thistle = thistle | the garden | certainly property | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Thistle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | participle | the Thistle not said here | a pot and which crowds one | perhaps property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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