--- title: Why do the flowers look so faded to-day?" she asked again, and point… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Why do the flowers look so faded to-day?" she asked again, and pointed to her nosegay, which was quite withered. Who acts: flowers, Ida. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Little Ida's Flowers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/) / 3 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 3 Why do the flowers look so faded to-day?" she asked again, and pointed to her nosegay, which was quite withered. **Who acts:** flowers, Ida · **What happens:** look, fade, ask, point, wither · **To what, where:** nosegay 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, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:73:3 # text = Why do the flowers look so faded to-day?" she asked again, and pointed to her nosegay, which was quite withered. 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 faded fade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 again again ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 pointed point VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 nosegay nosegay NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 quite quite ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 withered wither VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present · do-support | the flowers | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **fade** | participle | | | | | day | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | Ida | | | | again | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **point** *in a quote* | past | Ida *not said here* | | Ida's nosegay | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nosegay=Recipient | | 5 | **wither** *in a quote* | past · passive | | Ida's nosegay | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/4/) - ↑ back to [Little Ida's Flowers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/)