Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 103

But she took courage, laid the wool more thickly over the poor swallow, and then took a leaf which she had used for her own counterpane, and laid it over the head of the poor bird.

Who acts: Tiny · What happens: take, lay, use · To what, where: courage, wool, leaf, head

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct
6	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wool	det
8	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obj
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 thickly	advmod
10	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 laid	xcomp
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 swallow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 swallow	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 swallow	amod
14	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thickly	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 took	advmod
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 leaf	det
20	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 used	nsubj:pass
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 used	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 used	aux
24	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 leaf	acl:relcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 counterpane	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 counterpane	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 counterpane	amod
28	counterpane	counterpane	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 used	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 laid	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 laid	cc
31	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 laid	obj
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 head	det
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 laid	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 bird	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bird	det
38	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bird	amod
39	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 head	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Tiny	courage				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
2	lay	past	Tiny not said here	the wool			thickly property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Result
3	take	past	Tiny not said here	a leaf		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
4	use	past · perfect · passive		a leaf			for Tiny's own counterpane	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for counterpane=Eventuality
5	lay	past	Tiny not said here	wool	the head of the poor bird			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Destination

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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