Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 68
Nobody thought of the flower which had felt so much for the bird and had so greatly desired to comfort it.
Who acts: Nobody · What happens: think, feel, have, desire, comfort · To what, where: flower, body
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 (Nobody), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flower | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 felt | aux |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 flower | acl:relcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 felt | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 desired | advmod |
| 17 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 18 desired | advmod |
| 18 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 had | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 comfort | mark |
| 20 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 desired | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 comfort | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Nobody | of the flower | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past · perfect · passive | the flower | for the bird | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Nobody not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | desire | participle | Nobody not said here | greatly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | comfort not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nobody not said here | body | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
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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