Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 43
"But beauty is of higher value than all this," said the apple-tree branch; "only the chosen ones can be admitted into the realms of the beautiful.
Who acts: beauty, higher value · What happens: be, say, choose, admit · To what, where: tree branch, chosen ones, realms · 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 (beauty, higher value), 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 | _ | 7 value | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 value | cc |
| 3 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 value | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 value | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 value | case |
| 6 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 value | amod |
| 7 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 this | det:predet |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 value | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 value | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 value | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 branch | det |
| 15 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 apple | punct |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 branch | compound |
| 18 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 admitted | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 admitted | punct |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 ones | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ones | det |
| 23 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ones | amod |
| 24 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 admitted | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 admitted | aux:pass |
| 27 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 realms | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 realms | det |
| 30 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 admitted | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 beautiful | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 beautiful | det |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 realms | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | beauty | of higher value; than this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | higher value | the tree branch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent branch=Topic | ||||
| 3 | choose in a quote | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | admit speech: other in a quote | can · passive | the chosen ones | the realms of the beautiful | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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