Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 18

The little bird hopped round it and sang, "How beautifully soft the grass is, and what a lovely little flower with its golden heart and silver dress is growing here."

Who acts: little bird, grass, lovely little flower · What happens: hop, sing, be, grow · To what, where: little bird · 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 (little bird, grass, lovely little 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sang	nsubj
4	hopped	hop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bird	acl
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hopped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hopped	cc
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 soft	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 soft	punct
11	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 soft	advmod
12	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	13 soft	advmod
13	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sang	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soft	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 soft	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 what	cc
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 sang	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 flower	det
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flower	amod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flower	amod
23	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 growing	nsubj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 heart	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 heart	amod
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flower	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dress	cc
29	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dress	compound
30	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heart	conj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 growing	aux
32	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 what	acl:relcl
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 growing	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hop	participle		the little bird not said here		round bird	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory
2	sing speech: express	past	the little bird				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	the grass			beautifully, soft property	tree rules
4	grow in a quote	present · progressive	a lovely little flower with grass's golden heart and silver dress		here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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