Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 43
They came straight towards the little daisy, which could not understand what they wanted.
Who acts: boys · What happens: come, not understand, want · To what, where: little daisy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 daisy | advmod |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 7 daisy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daisy | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daisy | amod |
| 7 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 understand | obj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 understand | advmod |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 daisy | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 wanted | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wanted | nsubj |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | boys = boy | the little daisy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards daisy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not understand | could | the little daisy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | want | past | boys = boy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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