Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 66

While it was alive and sang they forgot it, and let it suffer want in the cage; now, they cried over it and covered it with flowers.

Who acts: body, flowers, you · What happens: be, sing, forget, let, suffer, want · To what, where: body, 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 (body, flowers, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 alive	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 alive	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	cop
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 let	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sang	cc
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	conj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forgot	nsubj
8	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sang	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forgot	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 suffer	ccomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 cage	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cage	det
18	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 cried	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cried	nsubj
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 let	parataxis
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cried	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 covered	cc
27	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cried	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 covered	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 covered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	body				alive property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	body not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	forget	past	flowers = flower	body				tree rules
4	let	imperative	you not said here	body				tree rules
5	suffer	infinitive	body not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	want	present	body not said here		the cage			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	cry speech: express	past	flowers = flower		body	now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location
8	cover	past	flowers = flower not said here	body			with flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with flower=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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