Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 112
All the flowers came round her directly, and asked if she had hurt herself, especially those who had lain in her bed.
Who acts: flowers, Sophy · What happens: come, ask, hurt, lie · To what, where: those, Sophy, bed
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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 flowers | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flowers | det |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 directly | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 directly | nmod:poss |
| 7 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 hurt | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hurt | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurt | aux |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 hurt | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 those | punct |
| 17 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 18 those | advmod |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 asked | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lain | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lain | aux |
| 21 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lain | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all flowers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round directly=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | those | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hurt a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Sophy | Sophy | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lie | past · perfect | Sophy's bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
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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