Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 108

Then she seated herself on the edge of the drawer, and thought that perhaps one of the flowers would ask her to dance; but none of them came.

Who acts: sort, one, none · What happens: seat, think, ask, dance, come · To what, where: sort, edge · 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 (sort, one, none), 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	3 seated	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seated	nsubj
3	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 seated	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seated	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 drawer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 drawer	det
10	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 ask	mark
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 ask	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 flowers	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flowers	det
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 ask	aux
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ask	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 dance	mark
24	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ask	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
27	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 came	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 none	nmod
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seated	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	seat	past	sort	sort		the edge of the drawer	then	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value
2	think speech: other	past	sort not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	would	one of the flowers		sort			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	one of the flowers not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	none					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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