Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 145
Ida kissed her flowers and then laid them, with the box, in the earth.
Who acts: Ida · What happens: kiss, lay · To what, where: flowers, earth
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), 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 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kissed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laid | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 laid | advmod |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laid | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 box | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 box | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 earth | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Ida | Ida's flowers | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | Ida not said here | flowers = flower | the earth | then | with the box | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in earth=Destination |
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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