Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 16

"I was in the garden out there yesterday with my mother," said Ida, "but all the leaves were off the trees, and there was not a single flower left.

Who acts: garden, Ida, single flower · What happens: be, say, leave · To what, where: garden, single flower · 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 (garden, Ida, single flower), 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	_	6 garden	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 garden	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 garden	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
7	out	out	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 garden	advmod
9	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garden	obl:unmarked
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 mother	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yesterday	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 garden	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 garden	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 trees	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Ida	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Ida	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 leaves	cc
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 leaves	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leaves	det
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Ida	conj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 trees	cop
24	off	off	ADP	_	26 trees	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 was	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 was	cc
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 flower	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 flower	det
33	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 flower	amod
34	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 was	nsubj
35	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 flower	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the garden = garden		the garden; there	yesterday		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the garden					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	past	Ida but all leaves				off the trees	tree rules
4	be in a quote	past	a single flower		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave in a quote	participle		a single flower not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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