Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 63
"Thank you," said little Gerda, and then she went to the other flowers, and looked into their little cups, and asked, "Do you know where little Kay is?"
Who acts: little Gerda, Gerda, you, little Kay · What happens: thank, say, go, look, ask, know · To what, where: you, other flowers · 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 Gerda, Gerda, you, little Kay), 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 | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Gerda | amod |
| 8 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 flowers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flowers | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flowers | amod |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 cups | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cups | nmod:poss |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cups | amod |
| 24 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 looked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 asked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 asked | cc |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 30 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 know | aux |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 know | nsubj |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 asked | ccomp |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 is | advmod |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Kay | amod |
| 35 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 is | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 know | ccomp |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | little Gerda | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Gerda | the other flowers | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to flower=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | look | past | Gerda not said here | into flowers's little cups | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into cup=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | little Gerda not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | be in a quote | present | little Kay | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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