Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 5
The branch well knew how beautiful it was; this knowledge exists as much in the leaf as in the blood; I was therefore not surprised when a nobleman's carriage, in which sat the young countess, stopped in the road just by.
Who acts: branch, tale, knowledge, I · What happens: know, be, exist, not be, sit, stop · To what, where: much, leaf, young countess, road · 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 (branch, tale, knowledge, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 branch | det |
| 2 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | advmod |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 exists | punct |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 knowledge | det |
| 11 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exists | nsubj |
| 12 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 exists | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 leaf | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 leaf | det |
| 17 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 much | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 blood | case |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 blood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blood | det |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 much | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 surprised | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 surprised | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 surprised | cop |
| 25 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 27 surprised | advmod |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 surprised | advmod |
| 27 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knew | conj |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 carriage | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 nobleman | det |
| 30 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 nobleman | case |
| 32 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 surprised | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sat | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 sat | nsubj |
| 36 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 surprised | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 countess | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 countess | amod |
| 39 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sat | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 stopped | punct |
| 41 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 countess | acl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 road | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 road | det |
| 44 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stopped | obl |
| 45 | just | just | ADV | _ | 46 by | advmod |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 stopped | obl:agent |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the branch | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tale | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exist | present | this knowledge | much | the leaf | as the blood | tree rules | ||
| 4 | not is | past | I | a nobleman's carriage obl; surprised, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit | past | the young countess | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location countess=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stop | participle | the young countess not said here | the road | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in road=Location |
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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