Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 39
A few innocent daisies, and a long thin dandelion, stood and listened in deep admiration, and believed everything they heard.
Who acts: few innocent daisies, daisies · What happens: stand, listen, believe, hear · To what, where: everything
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few innocent daisies, daisies), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 daisies | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daisies | amod |
| 3 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daisies | amod |
| 4 | daisies | daisy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dandelion | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dandelion | amod |
| 9 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dandelion | amod |
| 10 | dandelion | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dandelion | punct |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 listened | cc |
| 14 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 admiration | case |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 admiration | amod |
| 17 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 listened | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 believed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 believed | cc |
| 20 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 believed | obj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 everything | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a few innocent daisies | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | listen | past | a few innocent daisies not said here | in deep admiration | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in admiration=Theme | ||||
| 3 | believe | past | a few innocent daisies not said here | everything | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | daisies = daisy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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