Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 75
"But where is the little blue flower that grows by the water?" asked the oak, "and the purple bell-flower, and the daisy?"
Who acts: little blue flower, oak · What happens: be, grow, ask · To what, where: little blue flower · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little blue flower, oak), 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 | _ | 8 flower | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 flower | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 flower | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flower | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flower | amod |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flower | amod |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 grows | nsubj |
| 10 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flower | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grows | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 flower | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 flower | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 oak | det |
| 18 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 oak | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 oak | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flower | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flower | det |
| 23 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flower | amod |
| 24 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flower | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 bell | punct |
| 26 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oak | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 daisy | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 daisy | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 daisy | det |
| 30 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 daisy | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 daisy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the little blue flower | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | present | the little blue flower | by the water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by water=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the oak and the purple bell flower | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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