Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 39
Indeed, that was very difficult for such a small flower to find out.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, find out
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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 difficult | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 difficult | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 difficult | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 difficult | advmod |
| 6 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 flower | case |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 flower | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flower | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flower | amod |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 difficult | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 flower | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 find | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that | for such small flower; difficult, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | that not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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