Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 71
I didn't know any better then, and the flowers all died."
Who acts: I, flowers · What happens: not know, die
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 | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | ADV | _ | 6 better | advmod |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 know | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 died | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 died | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 died | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flowers | det |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 died | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 died | advmod |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | die | past | the flowers | then | all property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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