Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 79
I wonder if my flowers are still lying in Sophy's bed," she thought to herself; "how much I should like to know."
Who acts: I, flowers, Ida · What happens: wonder, lie, think, like, know · To what, where: bed, Ida, much · 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 | _ | 8 lying | 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 | 8 lying | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lying | aux |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 lying | advmod |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wonder | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 10 | Sophy | Sophy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Sophy | case |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wonder | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 thought | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 like | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 like | punct |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 like | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 like | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 like | aux |
| 25 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wonder | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 know | mark |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 like | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonder | punct |
| 29 | " | " | 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 what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lie a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | my flowers | Sophy's bed | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Ida | Ida | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | like | should | I | much | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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