Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 89

They all laughed at him then, but now it seemed to little Ida as if the tall, yellow flower was really like the young lady.

Who acts: lilies, it, tall yellow flower · What happens: laugh, seem, be · To what, where: little Ida

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 (lilies, it, tall yellow flower), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 laughed	advmod
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	obl
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 laughed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 seemed	cc
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 seemed	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Ida	case
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Ida	amod
14	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	obl
15	as	as	ADP	_	27 lady	case
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 lady	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flower	det
18	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 flower	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tall	punct
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 flower	amod
21	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lady	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lady	cop
23	really	really	ADV	_	27 lady	advmod
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 lady	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lady	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lady	amod
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seemed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	lilies = lily		then	at student	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	it	little Ida	now		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the tall yellow flower			as the young lady	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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