Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 33

At sunset it folded its petals, and fell asleep, and dreamt all night of the sun and the little bird.

Who acts: centre · What happens: fold, fall, dreamt · To what, where: petals

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 (centre), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 sunset	case
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 folded	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 folded	nsubj
4	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 petals	nmod:poss
6	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 folded	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 folded	conj
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fell	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dreamt	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dreamt	cc
13	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fell	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dreamt	obl:unmarked
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sun	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 night	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bird	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bird	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bird	amod
22	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sun	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 folded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fold	past	centre	centre's petals	sunset		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent petal=Patient
2	fall	past	centre not said here			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dreamt	past	centre not said here		night		tree rules

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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