Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 13
In their pride they did not see the little daisy, which looked over to them and thought, "How rich and beautiful they are!
Who acts: tulips · What happens: not see, look over, think, be, pride · To what, where: little daisy, pride, tulips · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tulips), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 pride | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pride | nmod:poss |
| 3 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daisy | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 daisy | amod |
| 10 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | parataxis |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 looked | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 looked | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rich | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 rich | punct |
| 21 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 rich | advmod |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 beautiful | cc |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rich | conj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rich | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 rich | cop |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · do-support | tulips = tulip | the little daisy | tulips's pride | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daisy=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look over | past | tulips = tulip | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | tulips = tulip | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | tulips = tulip not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | pride | tulips = tulip | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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