Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 12
"Where do the beautiful flowers dance?" asked little Ida.
What happens: do, ask · To what, where: flowers dance, little Ida · 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: 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 | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 do | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dance | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flowers | amod |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dance | compound |
| 7 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Ida | amod |
| 12 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | the flowers dance | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | little Ida | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent ida=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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