Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 80

She raised herself a little, and glanced at the door of the room where all her flowers and playthings lay; it was partly open, and as she listened, it seemed as if some one in the room was playing the piano, but softly and more prettily than she had ever before heard it. "

Who acts: Ida, flowers, room, it, one · What happens: raise, glance, lay, be, listen, seem · To what, where: Ida, piano

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, flowers, room, it), 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 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 raised	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 raised	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glanced	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 glanced	cc
8	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glanced	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 room	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 room	det
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	nmod
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 lay	advmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 flowers	det:predet
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 flowers	nmod:poss
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 playthings	cc
20	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flowers	conj
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 room	acl:relcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 open	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 open	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 open	cop
25	partly	partly	ADV	_	26 open	advmod
26	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 raised	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seemed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 seemed	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 listened	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 listened	nsubj
31	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seemed	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 listened	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 seemed	nsubj
34	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	parataxis
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 playing	mark
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 playing	mark
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 one	det
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 playing	nsubj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 room	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 room	det
41	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 one	nmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 playing	aux
43	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 seemed	xcomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 piano	det
45	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 playing	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 softly	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 softly	cc
48	softly	softly	ADV	_	2 raised	advmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 prettily	cc
50	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	51 prettily	advmod
51	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	48 softly	conj
52	than	than	SCONJ	_	57 heard	mark
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 heard	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 heard	aux
55	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	56 before	advmod
56	before	before	ADV	_	57 heard	advmod
57	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 prettily	advcl
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 heard	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 raised	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise	past	Ida	Ida	a little obl:unmarked; softly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
2	glance	past	Ida not said here		at the door of the room	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme
3	lay	present	Ida's flowers and playthings			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	room		open, partly property	tree rules
5	listen	past	Ida			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	play a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	some one in the room	the piano		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piano=Theme
8	hear	past	Ida	piano	before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer 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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