Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 80

“Which of them is Misfortune's flower and which is that of Happiness?” asked she.

Who acts: flower · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: flower, happiness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 flower	punct
2	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flower	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Which	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 flower	cop
6	Misfortune	Misfortune	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 flower	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Misfortune	case
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 asked	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Happiness	cc
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 Happiness	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Happiness	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 Happiness	mark
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Happiness	case
14	Happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flower	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 Happiness	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 Happiness	punct
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		Misfortune's flower and Happiness			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	Misfortune's flower and Happiness			of Happiness	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	Misfortune's flower and Happiness		happiness		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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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