Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 50

Have you not often seen that when the wind blows they nod at one another, and rustle all their green leaves?"

Who acts: you, wind, flowers · What happens: not see, blow, nod, rustle · To what, where: green leaves

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 (you, wind, 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	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 seen	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 blows	mark
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 blows	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blows	nsubj
10	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	advcl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nod	nsubj
12	nod	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 blows	ccomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 nod	obl
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 one	fixed
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rustle	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rustle	cc
18	rustle	rustle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	parataxis
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 leaves	det:predet
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 leaves	nmod:poss
21	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 leaves	amod
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rustle	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 rustle	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 rustle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	present · perfect	you		often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	blow	present	the wind			tree rules
3	nod	present	flowers = flower		at one	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rustle	infinitive		flowers's green leaves		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=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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