Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 6

"It must be a kind of garden plant," said another; and so they sneered and despised the plant as a thing from a garden.

Who acts: root, plants · What happens: be, say, sneer, despise · To what, where: kind, another, plant, garden · 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 (root, plants), 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 kind	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 plant	case
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	compound
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sneered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sneered	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 sneered	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sneered	nsubj
18	sneered	sneer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 despised	cc
20	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sneered	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 plant	det
22	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 despised	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 thing	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thing	det
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 despised	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 garden	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 garden	det
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 despised	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	must	root	a kind		of garden plant	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		another			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic
3	sneer	past	plants = plant				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	despise	past	plants = plant not said here	the plant	a garden	as a thing	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus

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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