Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 36
"Oh yes," said the student, "whenever they like, for they can fly.
Who acts: student, flowers · What happens: say, like, fly · 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 (student, flowers), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 student | det |
| 8 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 11 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 like | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fly | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 fly | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fly | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fly | aux |
| 18 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 like | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the student | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | present | flowers = flower | whenever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | fly in a quote | can | flowers = flower | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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