Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 72
We know it, we know it," and the flowers nodded with their heads in a peculiar manner.
Who acts: We, flowers · What happens: know, nod · To what, where: part · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, flowers), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nodded | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flowers | det |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 nodded | nsubj |
| 13 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 nodded | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 manner | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 manner | det |
| 19 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 manner | compound |
| 20 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nodded | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | We | part | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | present | we | part | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | nod in a quote | past | the flowers | with lips's heads; in a peculiar manner | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in manner=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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