Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 70

I did so with my flowers, but only twice; I wanted to see if they were growing.

Who acts: I, flowers · What happens: do, want, see, grow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, flowers), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 flowers	nmod:poss
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 wanted	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 twice	advmod
10	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 wanted	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 wanted	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wanted	xcomp
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 growing	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 growing	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 growing	aux
19	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 see	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	I	with my flowers	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	I	twice property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	grow a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	flowers = flower		vn appear-48.1.1 «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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