Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 75

She lay awake a long time after she was in bed, thinking how pretty it must be to see all the beautiful flowers dancing in the king's garden. "

Who acts: Ida, bed, beautiful flowers · What happens: lie, be, think, dance · To what, where: garden · 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, bed, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lay	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl:unmarked
7	after	after	ADP	_	11 bed	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bed	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bed	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 pretty	advmod
15	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thinking	ccomp
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 flowers	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flowers	det
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 flowers	amod
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 see	obj
25	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 flowers	acl
26	in	in	ADP	_	30 garden	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 garden	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 king	case
30	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dancing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Ida		time	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Ida		after bed		tree rules
3	think speech: other	gerund	Ida not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	is	must	bed			pretty, see property	tree rules
5	dance	gerund	all beautiful flowers not said here	the king's garden			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

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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