Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 43
"One is often of so grand a family, that one may not know it," said the Nettle, who grew close by.
Who acts: One, Nettle · What happens: be, not know, say, grow · To what, where: family · 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 (One, Nettle), 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 | _ | 7 grand | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 grand | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grand | cop |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 grand | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 often | fixed |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 grand | advmod |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grand | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grand | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 grand | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Nettle | det |
| 21 | Nettle | Nettle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Nettle | acl:relcl |
| 25 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grew | xcomp |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 close | fixed |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | One | grand, often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | may | that one | family | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Nettle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | the Nettle | close property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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