Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 40
"Yes, to children," said the apple-bough.
Who acts: children · What happens: say · To what, where: apple bough · 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 (children), 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 children | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 children | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | children | the apple bough | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bough=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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