Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 82
If they would only come in here," she thought; but they did not come, and the music continued to play so beautifully, and was so pretty, that she could resist no longer.
Who acts: flowers, Ida, music · What happens: come in, think, not come, continue, play, be · 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, music), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 continued | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 continued | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 music | det |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 continued | nsubj |
| 22 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 play | mark |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 continued | xcomp |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 beautifully | advmod |
| 26 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 24 play | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pretty | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pretty | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 pretty | cop |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 pretty | advmod |
| 31 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 22 continued | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 resist | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 resist | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 resist | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 resist | aux |
| 36 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 continued | conj |
| 37 | no | no | ADV | _ | 38 longer | advmod |
| 38 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 resist | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a condition, not said to happen | would | flowers = flower | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Ida | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | past · do-support | flowers = flower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | continue in a quote | past | the music | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | the music not said here | beautifully property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | pretty property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | resist in a quote | could | Ida | long property | tree rules |
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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