--- title: "Poor, despised plants," said the apple-bough, "it is not your fault… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Poor, despised plants," said the apple-bough, "it is not your fault that you are so ugly, and that you have such an ugly name; but it is with plants as with men,--there must be a difference." Who acts: apple bough, bough, you, name. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (apple bough, bough, you, name), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:6:21 # text = "Poor, despised plants," said the apple-bough, "it is not your fault that you are so ugly, and that you have such an ugly name; but it is with plants as with men,--there must be a difference." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 despised despise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 bough bough NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 fault fault NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 30 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 33 det:predet _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 ccomp _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 -- -- PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 47 expl _ _ 46 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 cop _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **despise** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the apple bough | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | bough | your fault | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | ugly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | such ugly name | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | name | | | | | with plants; as men and a difference | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | name *not said here* | a difference | | | | | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/22/) - ↑ back to [The Conceited Apple-branch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/6/)