Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 63
He could not imagine why she was weeping over that flower-pot, and it annoyed him.
Who acts: brother, girl · What happens: not imagine, weep · To what, where: flower pot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 weeping | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 weeping | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weeping | aux |
| 8 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 imagine | ccomp |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 pot | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 pot | det |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pot | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 flower | punct |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weeping | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 annoyed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 annoyed | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 annoyed | nsubj |
| 17 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 imagine | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 annoyed | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | could | brother | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | weep | past · progressive | girl | that flower pot | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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