Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 29
"That plant is a foreigner, no doubt," said the thistles and the burdocks. "
Who acts: plant, foreigner · What happens: be, say · To what, where: foreigner, thistles · 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 (plant, foreigner), 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 | _ | 6 foreigner | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 plant | det |
| 3 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foreigner | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 foreigner | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 foreigner | det |
| 6 | foreigner | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 doubt | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 doubt | det |
| 9 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foreigner | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 doubt | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 doubt | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thistles | det |
| 14 | thistles | thistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 burdocks | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 burdocks | det |
| 17 | burdocks | burdock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thistles | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that plant | a foreigner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a foreigner | the thistles and the burdocks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thistle=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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