Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 94

The little one used to appear, sometimes as an elf, sometimes as a page; the most difficult part she had to play was the lion's hind leg in the "Magic Flute;" but as she grew larger she could represent the fore-feet of the lion.

Who acts: aunt, difficult part, little one · What happens: use, appear, have, play, be, grow · To what, where: little one, difficult part, hind leg, Magic Flute, fore feet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt, difficult part, little one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leg	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 one	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 appear	mark
6	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 elf	punct
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 elf	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 elf	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 elf	det
11	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appear	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 page	punct
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 page	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 page	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 page	det
16	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 elf	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 leg	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 part	det
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 difficult	advmod
20	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 part	amod
21	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leg	nsubj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 part	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 play	mark
25	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 leg	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lion	det
28	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leg	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 lion	case
30	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 leg	amod
31	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 Flute	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Flute	det
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Flute	punct
35	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Flute	compound
36	Flute	Flute	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 leg	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 represent	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 represent	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 represent	cc
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 grew	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 grew	nsubj
42	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 represent	advcl
43	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 grew	xcomp
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 represent	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 represent	aux
46	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 leg	parataxis
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 feet	det
48	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 feet	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 fore	punct
50	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 represent	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 lion	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 lion	det
53	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 feet	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 leg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	participle		the little one not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	appear	to-infinitive				as a elf and a page	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	aunt	the difficult part not said here			tree rules
4	play	to-infinitive	the difficult part not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the little one	the lion's hind leg	the Magic Flute		tree rules
6	grow	past	aunt			large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	represent	could	aunt	the fore feet of the lion			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot foot=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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