Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 88

"Poor creature!" said all the roses; "only be still, and we will hide you.

Who acts: Poor creature, we · What happens: say, be, hide · To what, where: roses, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Poor creature, we), 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	_	3 creature	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 creature	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 creature	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 roses	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roses	det
9	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 still	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 still	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 still	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 still	cop
14	still	still	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hide	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hide	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 hide	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hide	aux
19	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 hide	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Poor creature	all roses		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rose=Topic
2	is in a quote	infinitive			still property	tree rules
3	hide in a quote	future	we	you		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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