Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 101
Then at last the other flowers interceded for him, especially those who had lain in the doll's bed, and the carnival rod gave up his dancing.
Who acts: carnival rod, lawyer · What happens: intercede, lie, give up, dance · To what, where: last other flowers, those, bed, dancing
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 (carnival rod, lawyer), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 interceded | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 flowers | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flowers | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flowers | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flowers | amod |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 interceded | obl |
| 7 | interceded | intercede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 interceded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lain | punct |
| 11 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 12 those | advmod |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 lain | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lain | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lain | aux |
| 15 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 interceded | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 doll | det |
| 18 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bed | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 doll | case |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lain | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gave | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rod | det |
| 24 | carnival | carnival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rod | compound |
| 25 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 interceded | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 gave | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dancing | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 interceded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intercede | past | the last other flowers | then | for lawyer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lie | past · perfect · passive | those | the doll's bed | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give up | past | the carnival rod | lawyer's dancing | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Source | ||||
| 4 | dance | lawyer | nom dancing «act transitive»: poss=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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