Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 37

So she told Gerda not to be sorrowful, but to taste the cherries and look at the flowers; they were better than any picture-book, for each of them could tell a story.

Who acts: Gerda, cherries, each · What happens: tell, not be, taste, look, be · To what, where: Gerda, cherries, story · 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 (Gerda, cherries, each), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sorrowful	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 sorrowful	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sorrowful	cop
8	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taste	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 taste	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 taste	mark
12	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 sorrowful	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cherries	det
14	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taste	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
16	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 taste	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flowers	det
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 look	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 better	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 better	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 better	cop
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 told	conj
24	than	than	ADP	_	28 book	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 book	det
26	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 book	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 picture	punct
28	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 better	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 each	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 each	case
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	35 tell	nsubj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 each	nmod
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 story	det
37	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Gerda		Gerda		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not is not said to happen	to-infinitive				sorrowful property	tree rules
3	taste	to-infinitive		the cherries			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme cherry=Attribute
4	look	infinitive				at the flowers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme
5	is	past	cherries = cherry			than any picture book; good property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	could	each	a story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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