Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 63

The flower could not, as on the previous evening, fold up its petals and sleep; it dropped sorrowfully.

Who acts: flower, drop · What happens: fold up, drop · To what, where: petals

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 (flower, drop), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fold	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 flower	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 could	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 evening	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	10 evening	case
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 evening	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 evening	det
9	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 evening	amod
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flower	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 flower	punct
12	fold	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 fold	compound:prt
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 petals	nmod:poss
15	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fold	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sleep	cc
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 petals	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 dropped	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dropped	nsubj
20	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fold	advcl
21	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	20 dropped	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fold up	infinitive	the flower and the previous evening	drop's petals and sleep					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent petal=Patient
2	drop	past	drop					sorrowfully property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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