Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 16

And while the daisy was still thinking, the lark came flying down, crying "Tweet," but not to the peonies and tulips--no, into the grass to the poor daisy.

Who acts: daisy, lark · What happens: think, come, fly down, cry · To what, where: grass, Tweet

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 (daisy, lark), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 thinking	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daisy	det
4	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thinking	aux
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 thinking	advmod
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lark	det
10	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 came	xcomp
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 flying	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crying	punct
15	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 flying	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Tweet	punct
17	Tweet	Tweet	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 crying	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Tweet	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Tweet	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 peonies	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 peonies	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 peonies	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 peonies	det
24	peonies	peony	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Tweet	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tulips	cc
26	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 peonies	conj
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 no	punct
28	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	11 came	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grass	punct
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 grass	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grass	det
32	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 daisy	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 daisy	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 daisy	amod
36	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grass	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	the daisy			still		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the lark		the grass to the poor daisy			tree rules
3	fly down	gerund	the lark not said here				down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the lark not said here	Tweet but the peonies and tulips				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tweet=Topic

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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