Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 6

There is still one thing that could save her," said one of the wisest among them. "

Who acts: one thing, one · What happens: be, save, say · To what, where: thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one thing, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 is	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thing	nummod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 save	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 save	aux
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl:relcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 save	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wisest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wisest	det
16	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 one	nmod
17	among	among	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wisest	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	present	one thing		there	still	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	could	one thing	thing			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	one of the wisest among roses				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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