Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 93
They did not look ill at all now, but jumped about and were very merry, yet none of them noticed little Ida.
Who acts: flowers, none · What happens: not look, jump about, be, notice · 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 (flowers, none), 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 | 4 look | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 ill | obl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 look | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 jumped | cc |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | parataxis |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 jumped | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 merry | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 merry | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 merry | advmod |
| 16 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 jumped | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 noticed | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 noticed | cc |
| 19 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 22 noticed | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 none | nmod |
| 22 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 jumped | conj |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Ida | amod |
| 24 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 noticed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · do-support | flowers = flower | now | ill property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | jump about | past | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | merry property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | notice | past | none | little Ida | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ida=Stimulus |
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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