Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 131
When she arose the next morning, she went quickly to the little table, to see if the flowers were still there.
Who acts: dreamt, flowers · What happens: arise, go, see, be · To what, where: little table
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 (dreamt, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arose | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 table | amod |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | conj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 there | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 flowers | det |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 there | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 there | cop |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 there | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 see | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | dreamt | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | dreamt | the little table | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to table=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | dreamt not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the flowers | still | there property | tree rules |
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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