Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 123

And then she tucked up her little dress, that she might run faster, but the narcissus caught her by the leg as she was jumping over it; so she stopped and looked at the tall yellow flower, and said, "Perhaps you may know something."

Who acts: grandmother, narcissus, you · What happens: tuck up, run, catch, jump, stop, look · To what, where: little dress, grandmother, narcissus, something · 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 (grandmother, narcissus, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 tucked	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tucked	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tucked	nsubj
4	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 tucked	compound:prt
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dress	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dress	amod
8	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tucked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 run	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 run	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 run	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 run	aux
13	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tucked	conj
14	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 run	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 caught	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 caught	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 narcissus	det
18	narcissus	narcissus	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	nsubj
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 run	parataxis
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 caught	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 leg	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 leg	det
23	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 jumping	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 jumping	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 jumping	aux
27	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 caught	advcl
28	over	over	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 jumping	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 stopped	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 stopped	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stopped	nsubj
33	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tucked	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 looked	cc
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stopped	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	40 flower	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 flower	det
38	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 flower	amod
39	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 flower	amod
40	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looked	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tucked	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 know	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 know	punct
46	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	49 know	advmod
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 know	nsubj
48	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 know	aux
49	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 said	ccomp
50	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	49 know	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 know	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck up	past	grandmother	grandmother's little dress		then		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
2	run	might	grandmother				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	past	the narcissus	grandmother			by the leg	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	jump	past · progressive	grandmother		narcissus			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
5	stop	past	grandmother					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	look	past	grandmother not said here				at the tall yellow flower	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	grandmother not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	know in a quote	may	you	something			perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

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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