Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 2

What do they do that for," she asked, of the student who sat on the sofa; she liked him very much, he could tell the most amusing stories, and cut out the prettiest pictures; hearts, and ladies dancing, castles with doors that opened, as well as flowers; he was a delightful student. "

Who acts: leaves, Ida, student, ladies, doors · What happens: do, ask, sit, like, tell, cut out · To what, where: that, sofa, student, amusing stories, prettiest pictures, castles · 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 (leaves, Ida, student, ladies), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	advcl
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 asked	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 for	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 student	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 student	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 student	det
14	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 student	acl:relcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 sofa	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sofa	det
19	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 liked	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 liked	nsubj
22	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 liked	obj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	22 liked	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tell	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 tell	aux
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stories	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 amusing	advmod
32	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stories	amod
33	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tell	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cut	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cut	cc
36	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 tell	advcl
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 cut	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pictures	det
39	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 pictures	amod
40	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 cut	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 hearts	punct
42	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tell	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 dancing	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 dancing	cc
45	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 dancing	nsubj
46	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 tell	ccomp
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 castles	punct
48	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 dancing	obl
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 doors	case
50	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 dancing	obl
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 opened	nsubj
52	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 doors	acl:relcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 flowers	punct
54	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	57 flowers	cc
55	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	54 as	fixed
56	as	as	ADP	_	54 as	fixed
57	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 opened	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 student	punct
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 student	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 student	cop
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 student	det
62	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 student	amod
63	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	leaves = leaf	that			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	Ida			of the student	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of student=Recipient
3	sit in a quote	past	the student		the sofa		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location
4	like in a quote	past	Ida	student			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	could	student	the amusing stories		hearts obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
6	cut out in a quote	participle	student not said here	the prettiest pictures			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector picture=Eventuality
7	dance in a quote	gerund	ladies	castles		with doors	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	open in a quote	past	doors	flowers			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is a in a quote	past	student	a delightful student			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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