Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 81
Now all the flowers are certainly dancing in there," she thought, "oh how much I should like to see them," but she did not dare move for fear of disturbing her father and mother. "
Who acts: flowers, Ida, I, fear · What happens: dance, think, like, see, not dare, disturb · To what, where: flowers, move, father · 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 (flowers, Ida, I, fear), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dancing | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 flowers | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flowers | det |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dancing | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dancing | aux |
| 6 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 7 dancing | advmod |
| 7 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 there | case |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dancing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dancing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 16 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 like | discourse |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 oh | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 like | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 like | aux |
| 21 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 like | xcomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 dare | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dare | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 dare | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 dare | advmod |
| 31 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dancing | conj |
| 32 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dare | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 fear | case |
| 34 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dare | obl |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 disturbing | mark |
| 36 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 fear | acl |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 father | nmod:poss |
| 38 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 disturbing | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 mother | cc |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 father | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dancing | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | present · progressive | all flowers | now | certainly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in there=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Ida | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | flowers = flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not dare in a quote | past · do-support | Ida | move | for fear | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Recipient | |||
| 6 | disturb in a quote | gerund | fear not said here | Ida's father and mother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=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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