Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 72
And before she went to bed herself, she was obliged to peep behind the curtains into the garden where all her mother's beautiful flowers grew, hyacinths and tulips, and many others.
Who acts: Ida, beautiful flowers · What happens: go, oblige, peep, grow · To what, where: Ida, bed, hyacinths
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, beautiful 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 obliged | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 obliged | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 obliged | aux:pass |
| 11 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 peep | mark |
| 13 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 obliged | xcomp |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 curtains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 curtains | det |
| 16 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 peep | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garden | det |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peep | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 grew | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 mother | det:predet |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flowers | amod |
| 26 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 grew | nsubj |
| 27 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 garden | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hyacinths | punct |
| 29 | hyacinths | hyacinth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 grew | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tulips | cc |
| 31 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hyacinths | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 others | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 others | cc |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 others | amod |
| 35 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hyacinths | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ida | Ida | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | Ida | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | peep | to-infinitive | into the garden; behind the curtains | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind curtain=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | Ida's mother's beautiful flowers | hyacinths and tulips and many others | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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