Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 2

He was such a little wee thing, that no human eye could see him.

Who acts: prettiest, human eye · What happens: be, see · To what, where: little wee thing, prettiest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prettiest, human eye), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
3	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 thing	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
6	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 eye	det
11	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eye	amod
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	prettiest = pretty	such little wee thing					tree rules
2	see	could	no human eye	prettiest = pretty					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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