Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 11
"Yes," said the student, "little daisies and lilies of the valley."
Who acts: student · What happens: say · 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 (student), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 student | det |
| 7 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 daisies | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 daisies | punct |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 daisies | amod |
| 11 | daisies | daisy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 student | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lilies | cc |
| 13 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 student | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 valley | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 valley | det |
| 16 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lilies | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the student and little daisies and lilies of the valley | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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