Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 122

It is no use asking the flowers; they know only their own songs, and can give me no information."

Who acts: bell, use, flowers · What happens: be, ask, know, give, sing · To what, where: use, flowers, own songs, information, me

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 (bell, use, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 use	det
4	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 use	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asking	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	parataxis
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 songs	advmod
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 songs	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 songs	amod
14	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 know	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 know	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 information	det
21	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	bell	no use		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	no use not said here	the flowers		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flower=Recipient
3	know	present	flowers = flower	flowers's own songs		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
4	give	can	flowers = flower not said here	no information	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient information=Theme
5	sing		flowers = flower			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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