Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 41
And the Thistle thought so long of the thistle of Scotland, to whose family he said he belonged, that he fancied at last that he had come from Scotland, and that his parents had been put into the national escutcheon.
Who acts: Thistle, Ass · What happens: think, say, belong, fancy, come, put · To what, where: thistle, last, Scotland, parents, national escutcheon · 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, Ass), 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:pg27200:12854): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Thistle | det |
| 3 | Thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | advmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 thistle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thistle | det |
| 9 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Scotland | case |
| 11 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thistle | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 family | case |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 family | nmod:poss |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 belonged | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thistle | acl:relcl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 belonged | nsubj |
| 19 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fancied | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 fancied | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fancied | nsubj |
| 23 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 last | case |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fancied | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 fancied | ccomp |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Scotland | case |
| 31 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 come | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 put | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 put | cc |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 put | mark |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 parents | nmod:poss |
| 36 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 put | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 put | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 put | aux:pass |
| 39 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 come | conj |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 escutcheon | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 escutcheon | det |
| 42 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 escutcheon | amod |
| 43 | escutcheon | escutcheon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 put | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Thistle | of the thistle of Scotland; long property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ass | the thistle of Scotland not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | belong | past | Ass | to family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fancy | past | Ass | last | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | Ass | Scotland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from scotland=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | put | past · perfect · passive | Ass's parents | the national escutcheon | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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