Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 13
Some few said nothing, others expressed too much, and the apple-branch very soon got to understand that there was as much difference in the characters of human beings as in those of plants and flowers.
Who acts: few, others, apple branch, much difference · What happens: say, express, get, understand, be · To what, where: nothing, much, characters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, others, apple branch, much difference), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:310): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 few | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 expressed | punct |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 expressed | nsubj |
| 7 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 expressed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 branch | det |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 branch | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 apple | punct |
| 15 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | nsubj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 got | advmod |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 understand | mark |
| 20 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 got | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 was | mark |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 understand | ccomp |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 difference | amod |
| 26 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 characters | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 characters | det |
| 29 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 was | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 beings | case |
| 31 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 beings | amod |
| 32 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 characters | nmod |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 those | case |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 those | case |
| 35 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 was | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 plants | case |
| 37 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 those | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 flowers | cc |
| 39 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 plants | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | some few | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | express | past | others | much | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | the apple branch | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | understand | to-infinitive | the apple branch not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | past | much difference | the characters of human beings; there | as those | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in character=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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