Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 59
"There's the great thistle still growing," she said. "
Who acts: great thistle, wife · What happens: be, grow, say · 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 (great thistle, wife), 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 | _ | 3 's | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 's | expl |
| 3 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thistle | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thistle | amod |
| 6 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 's | nsubj |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 growing | advmod |
| 8 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 thistle | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 's | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | the great thistle | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | gerund | the great thistle not said here | still | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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