Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 59

"Oh, how I have been detained!" said the little maiden, "I wanted to seek for little Kay.

Who acts: little maiden · What happens: detain, say, want, seek · To what, where: little maiden · 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 (little maiden), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 detained	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 detained	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 detained	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 detained	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 detained	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 detained	aux:pass
8	detained	detain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 detained	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 detained	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 maiden	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maiden	amod
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 seek	mark
20	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wanted	xcomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 Kay	case
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Kay	amod
23	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 seek	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	detain in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the little maiden = maiden		vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the little maiden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want in a quote	past	the little maiden = maiden			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	seek not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the little maiden = maiden not said here		for little Kay	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for kay=Theme

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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