Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 111

As none of the flowers seemed to notice Sophy, she let herself down from the drawer to the floor, so as to make a very great noise.

Who acts: flowers, Sophy · What happens: seem, notice, let down, make · To what, where: Sophy, drawer, great noise

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 (flowers, Sophy), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 none	case
2	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 seemed	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 notice	mark
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seemed	xcomp
9	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notice	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	parataxis
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 let	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 let	compound:prt
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 drawer	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 drawer	det
17	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drawer	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 make	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 make	mark
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 noise	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 great	advmod
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 noise	amod
29	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the flowers			as none	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	notice	to-infinitive	the flowers not said here	Sophy			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sophy=Stimulus
3	let down	past	Sophy	Sophy	the drawer to the floor		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	Sophy not said here	a great noise			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

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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