Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 38
The little daisy would have liked so much to help it, but what could be done?
What happens: like, help, do · To what, where: little daisy, lark
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: 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 daisy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daisy | amod |
| 3 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 liked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 liked | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 liked | aux |
| 6 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 liked | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 much | acl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 done | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 done | obj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | aux:pass |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 liked | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would · perfect · passive | the little daisy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | lark | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | do | could · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=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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