Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 26
"You do not see very far, nor very clearly," he said to the apple-branch. "
Who acts: apple branch, sunbeam · What happens: not see, say · To what, where: apple branch · 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, sunbeam), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 see | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clearly | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 clearly | cc |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 clearly | advmod |
| 11 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 5 see | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 branch | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branch | det |
| 18 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 branch | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 apple | punct |
| 20 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | the apple branch = branch | clearly, far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sunbeam | the apple branch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to branch=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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