Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 5

The flowers were at a ball last night, and therefore, it is no wonder they hang their heads."

Who acts: flowers, ball · What happens: be, hang · To what, where: ball, wonder, heads

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, ball), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ball	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ball	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 ball	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ball	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wonder	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wonder	cc
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	16 wonder	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 therefore	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wonder	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wonder	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 wonder	det
16	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ball	parataxis
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hang	nsubj
18	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wonder	acl:relcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heads	nmod:poss
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hang	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 wonder	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 ball	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the flowers		a ball	night		tree rules
2	is a	present	ball	no wonder			therefore property	tree rules
3	hang	present	flowers = flower	flowers's heads				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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