Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 91

Then she saw a large purple crocus jump into the middle of the table where the playthings stood, go up to the doll's bedstead and draw back the curtains; there lay the sick flowers, but they got up directly, and nodded to the others as a sign that they wished to dance with them.

Who acts: Ida, playthings · What happens: see, stand, go up, draw back, lay, get up · To what, where: large purple crocus jump, middle, curtains, sick flowers, others

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, playthings), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 jump	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jump	amod
6	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jump	amod
7	crocus	crocus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jump	compound
8	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jump	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 middle	nmod
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 stood	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 playthings	det
17	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 table	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 bedstead	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 doll	det
24	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bedstead	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 doll	case
26	bedstead	bedstead	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 draw	cc
28	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 draw	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 curtains	det
31	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 draw	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 lay	punct
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 lay	advmod
34	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 flowers	det
36	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 flowers	amod
37	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 got	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 got	cc
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 got	nsubj
41	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 got	compound:prt
43	directly	directly	ADV	_	41 got	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 nodded	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 nodded	cc
46	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 others	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 others	det
49	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 nodded	obl
50	as	as	ADP	_	52 sign	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 sign	det
52	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 nodded	obl
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 wished	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 wished	nsubj
55	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 nodded	advcl
56	to	to	PART	_	57 dance	mark
57	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 wished	xcomp
58	with	with	ADP	_	59 them	case
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 dance	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Ida	a large purple crocus jump		the middle of the table	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jump=Stimulus
2	stand	past	the playthings						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go up	infinitive	Ida not said here					to the doll's bedstead	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	draw back	infinitive	Ida not said here	the curtains					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme
5	lay	infinitive	Ida not said here	the sick flowers		there			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Result
6	get up	past	playthings = plaything					directly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	nod	past	Ida not said here		the others			as a sign	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient
8	wish	past	playthings = plaything						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	playthings = plaything not said here					with flowers = flower	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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