Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 124

Then she stooped down quite close to the flower, and listened; and what did he say?

Who acts: grandmother, scent · What happens: stoop, listen, say · 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, scent), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stooped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stooped	nsubj
3	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stooped	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 flower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flower	det
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 listened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 listened	cc
12	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stooped	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 say	obj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stooped	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	stoop	past	grandmother	then	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	past	grandmother not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past · do-support	scent		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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