Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 15

The large trees which grew round it saw the plant and heard the remarks, but they said not a word either good or bad, which is the wisest plan for those who are ignorant.

Who acts: large trees, system, trees, word · What happens: grow, see, hear, not say, be · To what, where: plant, remarks, word, wisest plan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large trees, system, trees, word), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 saw	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plant	det
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 remarks	det
14	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heard	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 said	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 word	det
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
22	either	either	CCONJ	_	23 good	cc:preconj
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 word	amod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 bad	cc
25	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 good	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 plan	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 plan	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 plan	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 plan	det
30	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 plan	amod
31	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 word	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 those	case
33	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 plan	nmod
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 ignorant	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 ignorant	cop
36	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 those	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the large trees			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	system	the plant		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus
3	hear	past	system not said here	the remarks		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer remark=Stimulus
4	not say speech: assert	past	trees = tree	a word and the wisest plan		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	is a	present	a word and the wisest plan	the wisest plan	for those	tree rules
6	is	present			ignorant property	tree rules

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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