Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 64

The flowers did hang their heads, because they had been dancing all night, and were very tired, and most likely they were ill.

Who acts: flowers · What happens: hang, dance, be · To what, where: 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), 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	4 hang	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hang	aux
4	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heads	nmod:poss
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hang	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dancing	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 dancing	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dancing	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dancing	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 dancing	aux
12	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hang	advcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dancing	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tired	cc
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tired	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 tired	advmod
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hang	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ill	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ill	cc
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 likely	advmod
23	likely	likely	ADV	_	26 ill	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ill	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ill	cop
26	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tired	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · do-support	the flowers	flowers's heads			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	dance	past · perfect · progressive	flowers = flower		night		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the flowers not said here			tired property	tree rules
4	is	past	flowers = flower			ill, likely property	tree rules

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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