Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 7
"Where are you coming?" said the tall thistles whose leaves were all armed with thorns. "
Who acts: you, tall thistles · What happens: come, say, be · 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 (you, tall thistles), 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 | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 coming | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thistles | det |
| 10 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thistles | amod |
| 11 | thistles | thistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 armed | nsubj |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thistles | appos |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 armed | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 armed | advmod |
| 16 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 thorns | case |
| 18 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 armed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the tall thistles | with thorns; all, armed 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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