Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 68

But every flower stood in the sunshine, and dreamed its own fairy tale or its own story: and they all told her very many things, but not one knew anything of Kay.

Who acts: flower, flowers, one, earth · What happens: stand, dream, tell, know · To what, where: sunshine, own fairy tale, many things, STORY, anything · 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 (flower, flowers, one, earth), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 stood	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 flower	det
3	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sunshine	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sunshine	det
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dreamed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dreamed	cc
10	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tale	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tale	amod
13	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tale	compound
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dreamed	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 story	cc
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 story	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 story	amod
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tale	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 told	advmod
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 told	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knew	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 knew	cc
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 one	advmod
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 knew	nsubj
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	parataxis
33	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 knew	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Kay	case
35	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 anything	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	every flower			the sunshine	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location
2	dream	past	every flower not said here	earth's own fairy tale or earth's own story			vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	flowers = flower	many things	STORY		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient thing=Topic
4	know	past	one	anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
5	tell		earth				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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