Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 27
Which is the despised plant you so specially pity?"
Who acts: plant specially pity · What happens: despise, be · To what, where: despised plant
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 (plant specially pity), 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 plant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plant | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plant | det |
| 4 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 plant | amod |
| 5 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pity | compound |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 plant | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 specially | advmod |
| 8 | specially | specially | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pity | amod |
| 9 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 pity | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despise | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | plant specially pity | the despised plant | 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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