Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 51

She knew every flower, and yet, although there were so many of them, it seemed as if one were missing, but which it was she could not tell.

Who acts: Gerda, many, it, one · What happens: know, be, seem, not be · To what, where: flower

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, many, it, one), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yet	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 yet	cc
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 knew	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 were	punct
9	although	although	SCONJ	_	11 were	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 many	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 were	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 many	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 missing	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 missing	mark
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 missing	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 missing	cop
23	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 tell	cc
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 tell	nsubj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	cop
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 tell	advmod
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seemed	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Gerda	every flower		yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
2	be	past	many of flowers		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	one				missing property	tree rules
5	not is	could · past					tell property	tree rules

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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