Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 4

The French call this flower "Marguerite," and they say that the little daisy can prophesy.

Who acts: French, flowers, little daisy · What happens: call, say, prophesy · To what, where: flower · 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 (French, flowers, little daisy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 French	det
2	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 call	nsubj
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Marguerite	punct
7	Marguerite	marguerite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Marguerite	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Marguerite	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 call	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 prophesy	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 daisy	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 daisy	amod
16	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prophesy	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 prophesy	aux
18	prophesy	prophesy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call	present	the French	this flower	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flower=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	flowers = flower		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	prophesy	can	the little daisy		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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