Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 44

"Here is a fine piece of turf for the lark," said one of the boys, and began to cut out a square round the daisy, so that it remained in the centre of the grass.

Who acts: fine piece, one, piece · What happens: be, say, begin, cut out, remain · To what, where: square, centre · 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 (fine piece, one, piece), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 said	parataxis
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 piece	amod
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 turf	case
8	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 lark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lark	det
11	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 said	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 boys	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boys	det
18	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cut	mark
23	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 cut	compound:prt
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 square	det
26	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obj
27	round	round	ADP	_	29 daisy	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 daisy	det
29	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cut	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 remained	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 remained	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 remained	nsubj
34	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 began	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 centre	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 centre	det
37	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 remained	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 grass	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 grass	det
40	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 centre	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a fine piece of turf for the lark			here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	one of the boys				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cut out	to-infinitive		a square		round the daisy	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector square=Eventuality
5	remain	past	piece		the centre of the grass		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in centre=Location

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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