Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 53
Gerda knew every flower; and, numerous as they were, it still seemed to Gerda that one was wanting, though she did not know which.
Who acts: Gerda, flowers, it, one · What happens: know, be, seem, want, not know · To what, where: flower, Gerda
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 (Gerda, flowers, it, 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 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 flower | det |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 numerous | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 numerous | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 numerous | punct |
| 8 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 were | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 were | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 numerous | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 seemed | advmod |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Gerda | case |
| 17 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | obl |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wanting | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wanting | aux |
| 21 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 know | punct |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 27 know | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 know | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 know | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 know | advmod |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | conj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 know | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Gerda | every flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | flowers = flower | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | Gerda | still | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 4 | want | past · progressive | that one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | not know | past · do-support | Gerda | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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