Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 47
"I never imagined anything like this," said the paper, "when I was only a little blue flower, growing in the fields.
Who acts: paper · What happens: not imagine, say, be, grow · To what, where: anything, little blue flower, fields · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paper), 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 | _ | 4 imagined | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 imagined | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 imagined | advmod |
| 4 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 imagined | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 anything | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagined | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagined | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 paper | det |
| 12 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flower | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 flower | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 flower | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 flower | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 flower | cop |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 flower | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 flower | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flower | amod |
| 21 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flower | amod |
| 22 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paper | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 growing | punct |
| 24 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 fields | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fields | det |
| 27 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 growing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine in a quote | past | the paper and a little blue flower = paper | anything | like this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the paper and a little blue flower | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | the paper and a little blue flower = paper | a little blue flower | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow in a quote | gerund | the paper and a little blue flower not said here | the fields | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |
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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