Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 97

All at once the wax doll which rode on the carnival rod seemed to grow larger and taller, and it turned round and said to the paper flowers, "How can you put such things in a child's head? they are all foolish fancies;" and then the doll was exactly like the lawyer with the broad brimmed hat, and looked as yellow and as cross as he did; but the paper dolls struck him on his thin legs, and he shrunk up again and became quite a little wax doll.

Who acts: wax doll, doll, paper flowers, flowers, broad, lawyer · What happens: ride, seem, grow, turn round, say, put · To what, where: carnival rod, paper flowers, such things, head, foolish fancies, hat · 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 (wax doll, doll, paper flowers, flowers), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 doll	det
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 doll	case
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 doll	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doll	det
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doll	compound
6	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	nsubj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rode	nsubj
8	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doll	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 rod	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rod	det
11	carnival	carnival	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rod	compound
12	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rode	obl
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 grow	mark
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
16	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 grow	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 taller	cc
18	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 larger	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 turned	nsubj
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seemed	parataxis
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 turned	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 flowers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 flowers	det
28	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flowers	compound
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
32	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 put	advmod
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 put	aux
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 put	nsubj
35	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
36	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 things	amod
37	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 put	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	42 head	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 child	det
40	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 head	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 child	case
42	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obl
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fancies	nsubj
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 fancies	cop
46	all	all	ADV	_	48 fancies	advmod
47	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 fancies	amod
48	fancies	fancy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 said	ccomp
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 lawyer	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 lawyer	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 lawyer	cc
52	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 lawyer	advmod
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 doll	det
54	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 lawyer	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 lawyer	cop
56	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	59 lawyer	advmod
57	like	like	ADP	_	59 lawyer	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 lawyer	det
59	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seemed	parataxis
60	with	with	ADP	_	62 broad	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 broad	det
62	broad	broad	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 lawyer	nmod
63	brimmed	brim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 broad	acl
64	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 brimmed	obj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 looked	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 looked	cc
67	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 lawyer	parataxis
68	as	as	ADP	_	69 yellow	case
69	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 looked	xcomp
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 cross	cc
71	as	as	ADV	_	72 cross	advmod
72	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 yellow	conj
73	as	as	SCONJ	_	75 did	mark
74	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 did	nsubj
75	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 cross	advcl
76	;	;	PUNCT	_	81 struck	punct
77	but	but	CCONJ	_	81 struck	cc
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	80 dolls	det
79	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 dolls	compound
80	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 struck	nsubj
81	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 looked	conj
82	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	81 struck	obj
83	on	on	ADP	_	86 legs	case
84	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	86 legs	nmod:poss
85	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	86 legs	amod
86	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 struck	obl
87	,	,	PUNCT	_	90 shrunk	punct
88	and	and	CCONJ	_	90 shrunk	cc
89	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	90 shrunk	nsubj
90	shrunk	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 struck	conj
91	up	up	ADP	_	90 shrunk	compound:prt
92	again	again	ADV	_	90 shrunk	advmod
93	and	and	CCONJ	_	94 became	cc
94	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 struck	conj
95	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	99 doll	det:predet
96	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	99 doll	det
97	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	99 doll	amod
98	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	99 doll	compound
99	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	94 became	xcomp
100	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	all wax doll			the carnival rod			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	all wax doll						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	grow	to-infinitive	all wax doll not said here					large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn round	past	doll					round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: ask	past	doll not said here		the paper flowers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to flower=Recipient clause=Topic
6	put in a quote	can	the paper flowers = flower	such things		a child's head			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in head=Destination
7	is a in a quote	present	flowers = flower	foolish fancies				all property	tree rules
8	is	past	the doll				then	like the lawyer; with the broad; exactly property	tree rules
9	brim	participle	the broad not said here	hat					tree rules
10	look	past						yellow property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
11	do	past	lawyer						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	strike	past	the paper dolls	lawyer				on lawyer's thin legs	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on leg=Patient
13	shrink up	past	lawyer				again		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
14	become	past	the paper dolls not said here	quite little wax doll					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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