Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 26

The peonies were sulky; it was well that they could not speak, otherwise they would have given the daisy a good lecture.

Who acts: peonies, idea · What happens: be, not be, give · To what, where: daisy

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 (peonies, idea), 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	2 peonies	det
2	peonies	peony	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sulky	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sulky	cop
4	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 speak	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 speak	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	cop
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 speak	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 speak	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 speak	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 speak	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 speak	advmod
13	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sulky	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 given	punct
15	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	19 given	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 given	aux
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sulky	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 daisy	det
21	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lecture	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lecture	amod
24	lecture	lecture	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sulky	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the peonies		sulky property	tree rules
2	not is	could · past	idea		speak, well property	tree rules
3	give	would · perfect	peonies = peony	the daisy	otherwise property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daisy=Recipient lecture=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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