Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 56

Then it noticed the little daisy, and nodded to it, and kissed it with its beak and said: "You must also fade in here, poor little flower.

Who acts: beauty, You · What happens: notice, nod, kiss, say, fade · To what, where: little daisy, beauty, poor little flower · 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 (beauty, You), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 noticed	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 noticed	nsubj
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daisy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daisy	amod
6	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noticed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nodded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nodded	cc
9	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nodded	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kissed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kissed	cc
14	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kissed	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 beak	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 beak	nmod:poss
18	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kissed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 fade	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 fade	punct
23	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 fade	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fade	aux
25	also	also	ADV	_	26 fade	advmod
26	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 here	case
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 fade	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flower	punct
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 flower	amod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 flower	amod
32	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fade	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	beauty	the little daisy		then		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer daisy=Stimulus
2	nod	past	beauty not said here		beauty			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
3	kiss	past	beauty not said here	beauty			with beauty's beak	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with beak=Instrument
4	say speech: assert	past	beauty not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fade in a quote	must	You	poor little flower				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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