Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 1

"My poor flowers are quite dead," said little Ida, "they were so pretty yesterday evening, and now all the leaves are hanging down quite withered.

Who acts: poor flowers, little Ida, flowers, leaves · What happens: be, say, hang down, wither · To what, where: pretty yesterday evening · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor flowers, little Ida, flowers, leaves), 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	_	7 dead	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 flowers	nmod:poss
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flowers	amod
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dead	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Ida	amod
12	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 evening	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 evening	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 evening	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 evening	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 pretty	advmod
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 evening	amod
19	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 evening	compound
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ida	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hanging	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hanging	cc
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 hanging	advmod
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 leaves	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 leaves	det
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hanging	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hanging	aux
28	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 hanging	advmod
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 withered	advmod
31	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hanging	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	My poor flowers			dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	little Ida				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	past	flowers = flower	pretty yesterday evening			tree rules
4	hang down in a quote	present · progressive	all leaves		now	down property	tree rules
5	wither in a quote	participle	all leaves not said here				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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