Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 24
Half ashamed, yet glad at heart, it looked over to the other flowers in the garden; surely they had witnessed its pleasure and the honour that had been done to it; they understood its joy.
Who acts: idea, flowers · What happens: look over, witness, do, understand, please, joy · To what, where: pleasure, honour, idea, joy
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 (idea, flowers), 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 | Half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 ashamed | advmod |
| 2 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
| 4 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 glad | cc |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ashamed | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ashamed | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 flowers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flowers | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flowers | amod |
| 15 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 garden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 garden | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flowers | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 witnessed | punct |
| 20 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 23 witnessed | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 witnessed | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 witnessed | aux |
| 23 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 ashamed | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 witnessed | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 honour | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 honour | det |
| 28 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pleasure | conj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 done | obj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 done | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 done | aux:pass |
| 32 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 honour | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 done | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 understood | punct |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 understood | nsubj |
| 37 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ashamed | conj |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 joy | nmod:poss |
| 39 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 understood | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look over | past | idea | to the other flowers in the garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | witness | past · perfect | flowers = flower | idea's pleasure and the honour | surely property | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · passive | the honour | idea | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | understand | past | flowers = flower | idea's joy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joy=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | please | idea | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | joy | idea | nom joy «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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