Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 10
A walnut-shell, elegantly polished, served her for a cradle; her bed was formed of blue violet-leaves, with a rose-leaf for a counterpane.
Who acts: walnut shell · What happens: polish, serve, form · To what, where: walnut shell, flower, bed
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walnut shell), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shell | det |
| 2 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shell | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 walnut | punct |
| 4 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 served | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 polished | punct |
| 6 | elegantly | elegantly | ADV | _ | 7 polished | advmod |
| 7 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shell | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shell | punct |
| 9 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 served | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 cradle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cradle | det |
| 13 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 served | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 formed | punct |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bed | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 formed | aux:pass |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 served | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 leaves | case |
| 20 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 leaves | amod |
| 21 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaves | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 violet | punct |
| 23 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 formed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 leaf | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 leaf | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 leaf | det |
| 27 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leaf | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 rose | punct |
| 29 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 counterpane | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 counterpane | det |
| 32 | counterpane | counterpane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leaf | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | participle | a walnut shell not said here | elegantly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | serve | past | a walnut shell | flower | for a cradle | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme for cradle=Recipient | |||
| 3 | form | past · passive | flower's bed | of blue violet leaves; with a rose leaf for a counterpane | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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