Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 34

On the following morning, when the flower once more stretched forth its tender petals, like little arms, towards the air and light, the daisy recognised the bird's voice, but what it sang sounded so sad.

Who acts: daisy · What happens: follow, stretch, recognise, sound · To what, where: flower, voice, centre

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 (daisy), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 stretched	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flower	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	nsubj:pass
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 stretched	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 stretched	advmod
11	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	forth	forth	ADV	_	11 stretched	advmod
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 petals	nmod:poss
14	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 petals	amod
15	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stretched	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arms	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 arms	case
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 arms	amod
19	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stretched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 air	punct
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stretched	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 light	cc
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 air	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 recognised	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 daisy	det
28	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 recognised	nsubj
29	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 air	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bird	det
31	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 voice	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 bird	case
33	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 recognised	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 what	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 what	cc
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 stretched	obl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sounded	nsubj:pass
38	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sounded	aux:pass
39	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 what	acl:relcl
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 sad	advmod
41	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sounded	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch	participle · passive		the flower	morning	like little arms; towards the air and light; forth, once property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient petal=Result
3	recognise	past	the daisy	the bird's voice			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
4	sound	past · passive		centre		sad property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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