Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 71
During the whole evening she could not help thinking of what the student had told her.
Who acts: Ida · What happens: not help, think, tell · To what, where: student, Ida · 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), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | amod |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 help | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 help | advmod |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 help | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 thinking | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 student | det |
| 13 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | could | Ida | evening | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other not said to happen | gerund | Ida not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the student | Ida | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=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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