Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 174
I wonder why grandmother looks at the withered flower in the old book that way?
Who acts: I, grandmother · What happens: wonder, look, wither · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grandmother), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 looks | advmod |
| 4 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 flower | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flower | det |
| 8 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 flower | amod |
| 9 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 book | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 book | amod |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | present | grandmother | that way | in the old book; at the withered flower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme | |||
| 3 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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