Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 88
The prettiest little babies lie there dreaming more sweetly than they will ever dream in the time to come.
Who acts: prettiest little babies, babies · What happens: lie, dream, come
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prettiest little babies, babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:12570): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 babies | det |
| 2 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 babies | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 babies | amod |
| 4 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lie | nsubj |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lie | advmod |
| 7 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lie | advcl |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 sweetly | advmod |
| 9 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 7 dreaming | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 dream | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dream | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 dream | aux |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 dream | advmod |
| 14 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sweetly | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dream | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 time | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the prettiest little babies | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dream | gerund | the prettiest little babies not said here | sweetly property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dream | future | babies = baby | ever; time | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | babies = baby not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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