Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 42
That was a great thought; but, you see, a great thistle has a right to a great thought.
Who acts: That, you, great thistle · What happens: be, see, have · To what, where: great thought, right
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 (That, you, great 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thought | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | amod |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thistle | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thistle | amod |
| 14 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 right | det |
| 17 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 thought | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thought | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thought | amod |
| 21 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 right | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | a great thought | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | present | a great thistle | a right | to a great thought | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=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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