Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 135

"Do you remember what the flowers told you to say to me?" said little Ida.

Who acts: you, flowers, little Ida · What happens: remember, tell, say · To what, where: you, 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: who acts (you, flowers, little Ida), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5332): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 say	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Ida	amod
18	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	remember in a quote	present · do-support	you		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the flowers	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the flowers not said here	little Ida = ida	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to i=Recipient
4	say speech: ask	past	little Ida		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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