Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 32
"'Yes,' said the old woman, 'I remember it very well; we used to water the branches, and one of them, an elder-tree branch, took root, and grew and became the large tree under which we are now sitting as old people.'
Who acts: old woman, mother, we, one · What happens: say, remember, use, branch, take, grow · To what, where: wedding, water, root, large tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, mother, we, one), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 said | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yes | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remember | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 remember | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 remember | nsubj |
| 13 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 remember | obj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 well | advmod |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 remember | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 used | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 used | nsubj |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 water | mark |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 used | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 branches | det |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 used | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 branch | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 branch | cc |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 branch | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 branch | punct |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 branch | det |
| 31 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tree | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 elder | punct |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 branch | compound |
| 34 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 used | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 took | punct |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 used | conj |
| 37 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 grew | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 grew | cc |
| 40 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 used | parataxis |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 became | cc |
| 42 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 grew | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 tree | det |
| 44 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 tree | amod |
| 45 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 became | xcomp |
| 46 | under | under | ADP | _ | 47 which | case |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 sitting | obl |
| 48 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 sitting | nsubj |
| 49 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 sitting | aux |
| 50 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 sitting | advmod |
| 51 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 tree | acl:relcl |
| 52 | as | as | ADP | _ | 54 people | case |
| 53 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 people | amod |
| 54 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 sitting | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 56 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remember in a quote | present | mother | wedding | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | use in a quote | past | we | water | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | branch in a quote | one of branches | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | take in a quote | past | we not said here | root | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grow in a quote | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | become in a quote | past | the large tree | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | we | the large tree | now | as old people | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=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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