Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 115
Then Sophy was very happy, and said they might keep her bed; she did not mind lying in the drawer at all.
Who acts: Sophy, flowers · What happens: be, say, keep, not mind, lie · To what, where: bed, drawer · 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 (Sophy, flowers), 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 | 2 Sophy | advmod |
| 2 | Sophy | sophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | conj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | aux |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bed | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keep | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 mind | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mind | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 mind | advmod |
| 18 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happy | parataxis |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 mind | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 drawer | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 drawer | det |
| 22 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lying | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 lying | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sophy | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sophy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep | might | flowers = flower | Sophy's bed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not mind | past · do-support | Sophy | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | Sophy not said here | the drawer | at all | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in drawer=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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