Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 41

It may be, however, that the flowers in the Botanical Gardens have never been to the king's palace, and, therefore, they know nothing of the merry doings at night, which take place there.

Who acts: permission, flowers, merry doings · What happens: be, not be, know, take · To what, where: nothing, place

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 (permission, flowers, merry doings), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 be	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	3 be	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 palace	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 palace	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flowers	det
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 palace	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 Gardens	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Gardens	det
12	Botanical	Botanical	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gardens	compound
13	Gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flowers	nmod
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 palace	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 palace	advmod
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 palace	cop
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 palace	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 king	case
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 know	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	28 know	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 know	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
28	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 palace	conj
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 know	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 doings	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 doings	det
32	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 doings	amod
33	doings	doing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 nothing	nmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 night	case
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 doings	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 take	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 take	nsubj
38	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 doings	acl:relcl
39	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obj
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 take	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	may	permission			however property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	present · perfect	the flowers in the Botanical Gardens			to the king's palace	tree rules
3	know	present	flowers = flower	nothing		therefore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	take	present	the merry doings at night	place	there		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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