Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 69

Then she told them to lie quite still and be good, while she made some tea for them, so that they might be quite well and able to get up the next morning.

Who acts: Ida, flowers · What happens: tell, lie, be, make, get up · To what, where: flowers, tea · 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 (Ida, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lie	mark
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 still	advmod
8	still	still	ADV	_	6 lie	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 good	cc
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 good	cop
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lie	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 tea	det
17	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 well	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 well	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 well	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 well	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 well	cop
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 well	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 made	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 able	cc
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 well	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 get	mark
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 get	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 morning	det
34	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 morning	amod
35	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Ida		flowers = flower	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lie not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ida not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	infinitive	Ida not said here				good property	tree rules
4	make	past	Ida	some tea			for flowers = flower	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tea=Material for they=Beneficiary
5	is	might	flowers = flower				well property	tree rules
6	be		flowers = flower not said here					tree rules
7	get up	to-infinitive	flowers = flower not said here			morning		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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