Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 12

"Darling Marguerite daisy," he said to her, "you are the wisest woman of all the flowers.

Who acts: butterfly, Marguerite · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Marguerite, wisest woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butterfly, Marguerite), 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 daisy	punct
2	Darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daisy	amod
3	Marguerite	Marguerite	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 daisy	compound
4	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 daisy	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 daisy	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 woman	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 woman	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
16	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 flowers	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 flowers	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flowers	det
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 woman	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	butterfly		Marguerite				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present	Marguerite	the wisest woman				of all flowers	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/15/12/