Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 88

At the piano sat a large yellow lily which little Ida was sure she had seen in the summer, for she remembered the student saying she was very much like Miss Lina, one of Ida's friends.

Who acts: little Ida, Ida · What happens: sit, be, see, remember, say · To what, where: large yellow lily, piano, student · 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 (little Ida, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 piano	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 piano	det
3	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lily	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lily	amod
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lily	amod
8	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sure	ccomp
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Ida	amod
11	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sure	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sure	cop
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lily	parataxis
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 sure	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 summer	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 summer	det
19	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 remembered	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 remembered	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 remembered	nsubj
23	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 student	det
25	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remembered	obj
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 remembered	advcl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 Miss	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Miss	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADV	_	32 Miss	advmod
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 Miss	case
32	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 saying	ccomp
33	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Miss	flat
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 one	punct
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 remembered	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 friends	case
37	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 friends	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 Ida	case
39	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 one	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past		a large yellow lily	the piano			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lily=Theme at piano=Location
2	is	past	little Ida				sure property	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	Ida			summer		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	remember	past	Ida	the student			one of Ida's friends obl	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent student=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Ida not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Ida				like Miss	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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