Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 6
"But flowers cannot dance?" cried little Ida.
Who acts: flowers, little Ida · What happens: not dance, cry · 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 (flowers, little 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dance | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 dance | cc |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dance | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dance | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dance | advmod |
| 6 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 dance | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dance | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Ida | amod |
| 11 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dance in a quote | can | flowers | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | little Ida | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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