Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 22

The thick-headed roses ought to know why, but they know nothing at all; they only look at themselves and smell.

Who acts: headed roses, roses · What happens: know, look, smell · To what, where: nothing, all

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (headed roses, roses), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roses	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 headed	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 thick	punct
4	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 roses	amod
5	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 know	nsubj
6	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 know	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	parataxis
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 know	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 nothing	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 look	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 look	advmod
20	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	parataxis
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 themselves	case
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 look	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 smell	cc
24	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 look	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	ought	the headed roses				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	present	roses = rose	nothing	all		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	look	present	roses = rose			at roses = rose	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at themselves=Theme
4	smell	present	roses = rose not said here				vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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