Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 63

But to little Ida, all these stories which the student told her about the flowers, seemed very droll, and she thought over them a great deal.

Who acts: student, Ida · What happens: tell, seem, think · To what, where: stories, Ida, little Ida, great deal · 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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Ida	case
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Ida	amod
4	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stories	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 stories	det:predet
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 stories	det
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Ida	conj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 told	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 student	det
11	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stories	acl:relcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 flowers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flowers	det
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Ida	punct
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 droll	advmod
20	droll	droll	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seemed	conj
25	over	over	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	obl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 deal	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 deal	amod
29	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the student	all stories	Ida	about the flowers	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient which=Topic
2	seem	past			little Ida and all stories	droll property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	Ida	a great deal		over flowers = flower	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deal=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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