Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 102

Tiny trembled very much; she was quite frightened, for the bird was large, a great deal larger than herself,--she was only an inch high.

Who acts: Tiny, bird · What happens: tremble, frighten, be · To what, where: Tiny, inch

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 (Tiny, bird), 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	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 trembled	nsubj
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 trembled	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 frightened	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 frightened	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	aux:pass
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 frightened	advmod
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 trembled	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 large	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 large	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 large	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 large	cop
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 frightened	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 larger	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 deal	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 deal	amod
19	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 larger	nsubj
20	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 large	parataxis
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 herself	case
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 larger	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 larger	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 inch	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 inch	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 inch	cop
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 inch	advmod
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 inch	det
29	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 large	conj
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 inch	amod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	Tiny			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	frighten	past · passive		Tiny		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	is	past	the bird		large property	tree rules
4	is a	past	Tiny	a inch		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.

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