Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 41
"Now really here is a flower coming," said the old woman one morning, and now at last she began to encourage the hope that her sick daughter might really recover.
Who acts: flower, old woman, woman, sick daughter · What happens: be, come, say, begin, encourage, recover · To what, where: hope · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, old woman, woman, sick daughter), 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 | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 here | advmod |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 here | advmod |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 flower | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 coming | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 flower | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 morning | nummod |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woman | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 last | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 last | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 last | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 last | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 began | nsubj |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 last | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 encourage | mark |
| 25 | encourage | encourage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hope | det |
| 27 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 encourage | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 recover | mark |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 daughter | amod |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 recover | nsubj |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 recover | aux |
| 33 | really | really | ADV | _ | 34 recover | advmod |
| 34 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hope | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | now | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | gerund | a flower not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | woman | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | encourage | to-infinitive | woman not said here | the hope | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Theme | ||||
| 6 | recover | might | woman's sick daughter | the hope not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=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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