Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 74
But the flowers appeared as if they did not understand, and not a leaf moved; still Ida felt quite sure she knew all about it.
Who acts: flowers, leaf, Ida · What happens: appear, not understand, not move, feel, know
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, leaf, 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 | _ | 4 appeared | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flowers | det |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 understand | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 understand | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 understand | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 understand | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 understand | advmod |
| 10 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 appeared | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moved | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 moved | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 moved | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 leaf | det |
| 15 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moved | nsubj |
| 16 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 appeared | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 felt | advmod |
| 19 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 sure | advmod |
| 22 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 felt | xcomp |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | nsubj |
| 24 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sure | ccomp |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 knew | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 knew | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the flowers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not understand | past · do-support | flowers = flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not move | participle | a leaf | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | Ida | still | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | know | past | Ida | about bed; all property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus |
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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