Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 3
Why do the flowers look so faded to-day?" she asked again, and pointed to her nosegay, which was quite withered.
Who acts: flowers, Ida · What happens: look, fade, ask, point, wither · To what, where: nosegay
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 (flowers, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 look | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flowers | det |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 faded | advcl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 faded | advmod |
| 7 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 asked | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faded | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 faded | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 faded | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 asked | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pointed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pointed | cc |
| 18 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 nosegay | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nosegay | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nosegay | nosegay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pointed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 withered | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 withered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 withered | aux:pass |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 withered | advmod |
| 26 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 nosegay | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · do-support | the flowers | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fade | participle | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Ida | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | point in a quote | past | Ida not said here | Ida's nosegay | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nosegay=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | wither in a quote | past · passive | Ida's nosegay | 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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