Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 39

"Do you see," said the sunbeam, "do you see the beauty of these flowers? do you see their powers of giving pleasure?"

Who acts: you, sunbeam, powers · What happens: see, say, give · To what, where: beauty, powers, pleasure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sunbeam, powers), 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 see	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sunbeam	det
9	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beauty	det
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 flowers	det
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beauty	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 powers	nmod:poss
25	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 see	obj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 giving	mark
27	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 powers	acl
28	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 giving	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · do-support	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: ask	past	the sunbeam		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	present · do-support	you	the beauty of this flowers	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus
4	see in a quote	present · do-support	you	children's powers	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus
5	give in a quote	gerund	children's powers not said here	pleasure	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=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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