Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 142

She told them about the poor flowers which were dead; and as soon as they obtained permission, they went with her to bury them.

Who acts: Ida, poor flowers, cousins · What happens: tell, be, obtain, go, bury · To what, where: cousins, permission · 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 (Ida, poor flowers, cousins), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flowers	amod
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 dead	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flowers	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 obtained	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 obtained	cc
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 obtained	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 obtained	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 obtained	nsubj
17	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
18	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obtained	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 obtained	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bury	mark
25	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bury	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Ida		cousins = cousin	about the poor flowers	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about flower=Topic
2	is	past	the poor flowers			dead property	tree rules
3	obtain	past	cousins = cousin	permission		soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset permission=Theme
4	go	past	cousins = cousin			with Ida	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
5	bury	to-infinitive	cousins = cousin not said here	cousins = cousin			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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