Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 16
"Poor, despised herbs," said the apple-branch; "there is really a difference between them and such as I am.
Who acts: apple branch · What happens: despise, say, be · To what, where: difference · 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 (apple branch), 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 herbs | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 herbs | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Poor | punct |
| 4 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 herbs | amod |
| 5 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 herbs | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 herbs | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branch | det |
| 10 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 branch | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 apple | punct |
| 12 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 is | expl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 difference | cop |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 19 difference | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 difference | det |
| 19 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 difference | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 such | cc |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 difference | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 such | fixed |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 such | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 such | cop |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despise in a quote | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the apple branch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a difference | between branches = branch | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the apple branch = branch | such 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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