Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 133

So she stood still, looked at the long yellow flower, and asked, “You perhaps know something?” and she bent down to the Narcissus.

Who acts: Narcissus, You · What happens: stand, look, ask, know, bend down · To what, where: something, Narcissus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Narcissus, You), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 flower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flower	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flower	amod
10	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flower	amod
11	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 asked	cc
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
17	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 asked	ccomp
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 know	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 something	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bent	cc
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bent	nsubj
25	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 bent	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 Narcissus	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Narcissus	det
29	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 bent	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Narcissus			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	Narcissus not said here				at the long yellow flower	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	Narcissus not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	know in a quote	present	You	something			perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
5	bend down	past	Narcissus		the Narcissus		down property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to narcissus=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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