Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 63
All that botanists can say in many lectures was explained in a moment by this little flower.
Who acts: botanists, little flower · What happens: say, explain · To what, where: many lectures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (botanists, little flower), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 botanists | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 botanists | det |
| 3 | botanists | botanist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 explained | mark |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lectures | amod |
| 8 | lectures | lecture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 explained | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 explained | aux:pass |
| 10 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 say | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 explained | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 flower | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 flower | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flower | amod |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 explained | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | all botanists | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past · passive | this little flower | many lectures | moment | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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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