Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 121
"My poor old grandmother!" sighed Gerda; "she is longing to see me, and grieving for me as she did for little Kay; but I shall soon go home now, and take little Kay with me.
Who acts: poor old grandmother, grandmother, song buttercups · What happens: sigh, long, see, grieve, do, go · To what, where: Gerda, song buttercups, little Kay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old grandmother, grandmother, song buttercups), 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 | _ | 5 grandmother | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grandmother | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grandmother | amod |
| 5 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sighed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 grandmother | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 grandmother | punct |
| 8 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sighed | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 longing | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 longing | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 longing | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 longing | aux |
| 14 | longing | long | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sighed | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 longing | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 did | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 did | cc |
| 20 | grieving | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 did | csubj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 grieving | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 did | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 did | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sighed | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 Kay | case |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Kay | amod |
| 28 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 did | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 go | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 go | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 go | aux |
| 33 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 go | advmod |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sighed | parataxis |
| 35 | home | home | ADV | _ | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 go | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 take | cc |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 34 go | parataxis |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Kay | amod |
| 41 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 take | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | My poor old grandmother | Gerda | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | long in a quote | present · progressive | grandmother | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | grandmother not said here | the song buttercups = buttercup | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | grieve in a quote | gerund | for the song buttercups = buttercup | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | past | grandmother | for little Kay | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | shall | the song buttercups = buttercup | now | home, soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | take in a quote | infinitive | little Kay | with the song buttercups = buttercup | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument kay=Destination |
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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