Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 94
"Which is the unhappy flower, and which is the blessed one?" she said.
Who acts: unhappy flower · What happens: be, say · To what, where: unhappy flower, blessed one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unhappy 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 flower | punct |
| 2 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 flower | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 flower | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flower | amod |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 one | cc |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 one | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flower | appos |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the unhappy flower | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the unhappy flower | the blessed one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the unhappy flower | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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