Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 27

The little flower could very well see that they were ill at ease, and pitied them sincerely.

Who acts: little flower, flowers · What happens: see, be, pity · To what, where: ease, flowers · 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 flower, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flower	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flower	amod
3	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
5	very	very	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 very	fixed
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 ill	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ill	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	cop
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	ccomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 ease	case
13	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ill	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pitied	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pitied	cc
16	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pitied	obj
18	sincerely	sincerely	ADV	_	16 pitied	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	the little flower				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	flowers = flower		ease	ill property	tree rules
3	pity	past	the little flower not said here	flowers = flower		sincerely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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