Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 47
"We have also some near relations in the home of the potatoes, but higher towards the north than they grew," said the Sloes. "
Who acts: We, relations, Sloes · What happens: have, grow, say · To what, where: near relations, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, relations, Sloes), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 relations | det |
| 6 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 relations | amod |
| 7 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 home | det |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 relations | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 potatoes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 potatoes | det |
| 13 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 home | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 higher | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 higher | cc |
| 16 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 have | parataxis |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 north | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 north | det |
| 19 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 higher | obl |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 grew | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grew | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 grew | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 higher | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sloes | det |
| 27 | Sloes | sloe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 said | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | We | some near relations | the home of the potatoes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow in a quote | past | relations = relation | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Sloes | 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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