Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 76
I wonder if my flowers have really been there," she said to herself, and then she fell asleep.
Who acts: I, flowers, Ida · What happens: wonder, be, say, fall · To what, where: 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 (I, flowers, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wonder | nsubj |
| 2 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 there | mark |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 there | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 there | aux |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 there | cop |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wonder | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 herself | case |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 fell | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fell | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | my flowers | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Ida | Ida | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | fall in a quote | past | Ida | then | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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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