Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 29
And the Thistle pictured this to himself in such a lively manner, that at last he said, with full conviction, "I am to be transplanted into a pot."
Who acts: Thistle, last · What happens: picture, say, transplant · To what, where: this, One, lively manner, last, 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, last), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 pictured | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Thistle | det |
| 3 | Thistle | Thistle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pictured | nsubj |
| 4 | pictured | picture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pictured | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 pictured | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 manner | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 manner | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 manner | det |
| 11 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 manner | amod |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pictured | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 last | det |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pictured | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 conviction | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 conviction | case |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 conviction | amod |
| 22 | conviction | conviction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 transplanted | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 transplanted | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 transplanted | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 transplanted | aux |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 transplanted | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 transplanted | aux:pass |
| 29 | transplanted | transplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 said | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 pot | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pot | det |
| 32 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 transplanted | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pictured | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pictured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | past | the Thistle | this | One | such lively manner | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme to himself=be' | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | that last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | transplant in a quote | present · passive | that last = last | a pot | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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