Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 30
Ugh!" sighed the daisy, "that is terrible; now they are done for."
Who acts: that · What happens: sigh, be, do · To what, where: daisy, tulips
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 (that), 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 | Ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 4 sighed | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ugh | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
| 4 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daisy | det |
| 6 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sighed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 terrible | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 terrible | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 terrible | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 terrible | cop |
| 11 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sighed | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 done | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux:pass |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sighed | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 done | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh in a quote | past | the daisy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daisy=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | terrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present · passive | tulips = tulip | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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