Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 9

"When will it be summer?" asked the Flower, and she repeated this question each time a new sunbeam made its way down to her.

Who acts: stirring, summer, flower, new sunbeam · What happens: be, ask, repeat, make down · To what, where: summer, Flower, question, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stirring, summer, flower, new sunbeam), 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	_	6 summer	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 summer	advmod
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 summer	aux
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 summer	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 summer	cop
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Flower	det
11	Flower	Flower	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 repeated	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 repeated	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 repeated	nsubj
15	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 question	det
17	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 repeated	obj
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 repeated	obl:unmarked
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sunbeam	det
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sunbeam	amod
22	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 repeated	conj
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
26	down	down	ADV	_	23 made	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	future	stirring	summer				tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	summer		the Flower			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent flower=Recipient
3	repeat	past	flower	this question		time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
4	make down	past	a new sunbeam	stirring's way	flower		down property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product

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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