Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 65

Flat and faded she certainly was, but why should she be thrown on the ground?

Who acts: Flat, flower · What happens: fade, be, throw · To what, where: flower, ground

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flat, flower), 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	Flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faded	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 faded	cc
3	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 was	advmod
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 faded	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thrown	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 thrown	cc
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 thrown	advmod
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 thrown	aux
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thrown	nsubj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 thrown	aux:pass
13	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 faded	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrown	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 faded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fade	past	Flat				tree rules
2	be	past	flower			certainly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw	should · passive		flower	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination

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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