Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 11
"Now we have flowers enough," said the child; but the angel only nodded, he did not fly upward to heaven.
Who acts: we, child, angel · What happens: have, say, nod, not fly · To what, where: flowers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, child, angel), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 have | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 nodded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 nodded | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 angel | det |
| 15 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nodded | nsubj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 nodded | advmod |
| 17 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fly | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fly | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fly | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 fly | advmod |
| 22 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nodded | conj |
| 23 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 22 fly | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 heaven | case |
| 25 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fly | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | we | flowers | now | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | nod | past | the angel | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not fly | past · do-support | angel | to heaven result; upward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to heaven=Result |
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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