Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 21

"Poor, despised plants," said the apple-bough, "it is not your fault that you are so ugly, and that you have such an ugly name; but it is with plants as with men,--there must be a difference."

Who acts: apple bough, bough, you, name · What happens: despise, say, not be, be, have · To what, where: fault, ugly name, 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 bough, bough, you, name), 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 plants	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 despised	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Poor	punct
4	despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 plants	amod
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 plants	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 plants	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 bough	det
10	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bough	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 apple	punct
12	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fault	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 fault	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fault	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fault	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 fault	advmod
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fault	nmod:poss
19	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 ugly	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ugly	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 ugly	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 ugly	advmod
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fault	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 have	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 name	det:predet
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 name	det
32	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 name	amod
33	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 plants	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 plants	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 plants	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 plants	cop
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 plants	case
39	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	ccomp
40	as	as	ADP	_	42 men	case
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 men	case
42	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 plants	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 difference	punct
44	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 be	punct
45	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 be	expl
46	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 be	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 difference	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 difference	det
49	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 men	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 plants	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 plants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 bough			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is a in a quote	present	bough	your fault		tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	you		ugly property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	present	you	such ugly name		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
6	is in a quote	present	name		with plants; as men and a difference	tree rules
7	is a in a quote	infinitive	name not said here	a difference		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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