Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 45

"Pluck the flower off," said the other boy, and the daisy trembled for fear, for to be pulled off meant death to it; and it wished so much to live, as it was to go with the square of turf into the poor captive lark's cage.

Who acts: other boy, daisy, death · What happens: pluck off, say, tremble, pull off, mean, wish · To what, where: flower, daisy, death, much, cage · 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 (other boy, daisy, death), 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 Pluck	punct
2	Pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flower	det
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pluck	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 Pluck	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pluck	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pluck	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 meant	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 meant	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 daisy	det
15	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meant	nsubj
16	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 daisy	acl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 fear	case
18	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trembled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pulled	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 pulled	mark
21	to	to	PART	_	23 pulled	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 pulled	aux:pass
23	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 trembled	conj
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 pulled	compound:prt
25	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meant	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 meant	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 wished	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wished	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wished	nsubj
32	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wished	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 live	mark
36	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 much	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 go	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 go	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 go	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 go	cop
41	to	to	PART	_	42 go	mark
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 wished	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 square	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 square	det
45	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 go	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 turf	case
47	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 square	nmod
48	into	into	ADP	_	54 cage	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 lark	det
50	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 lark	amod
51	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 lark	amod
52	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 cage	nmod:poss
53	's	's	PART	_	52 lark	case
54	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 go	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pluck off in a quote	infinitive		the flower				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the other boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tremble	participle		the daisy not said here			for fear	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pull off	to-infinitive · passive						vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»
5	mean	past	the daisy	death	death			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot death=Theme to it=Attribute
6	wish	past	death	much				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
7	live	to-infinitive						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	death			the poor captive lark's cage	with the square of turf; go property	tree rules

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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