Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 25
"But," said little Ida, "is there no one there to hurt the flowers for dancing in the king's castle?"
Who acts: little Ida · What happens: say, be, hurt · To what, where: one, flowers · 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 (little 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | csubj |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Ida | amod |
| 7 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 one | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hurt | mark |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 one | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flowers | det |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurt | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 dancing | case |
| 20 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurt | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 castle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 castle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 king | case |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dancing | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | little Ida | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | no one | there | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt in a quote | to-infinitive | the flowers | for dancing in the king's castle | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Patient |
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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