Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 109

Then she brought the swallow some water in a flower-leaf, and after he had drank, he told her that he had wounded one of his wings in a thorn-bush, and could not fly as fast as the others, who were soon far away on their journey to warm countries.

Who acts: Tiny, snow, others · What happens: bring, drink, tell, wound, not fly, be · To what, where: swallow, flower leaf, Tiny, one, journey, countries · Speech: someone speaks here

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, snow, others), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 brought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swallow	det
5	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 leaf	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 leaf	det
10	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaf	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 flower	punct
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 drank	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drank	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drank	aux
18	drank	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 told	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drank	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 wounded	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wounded	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 wounded	aux
26	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 told	ccomp
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 wounded	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 wings	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wings	nmod:poss
30	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 bush	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bush	det
33	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bush	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 thorn	punct
35	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wings	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fly	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fly	cc
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 fly	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 fly	advmod
40	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	ccomp
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 fast	advmod
42	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 fly	advmod
43	as	as	ADP	_	45 others	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 others	det
45	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 fly	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 journey	punct
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 journey	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 journey	cop
49	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 far	advmod
50	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 away	advmod
51	away	away	ADV	_	54 journey	advmod
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 journey	case
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 journey	nmod:poss
54	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 others	nmod
55	to	to	PART	_	56 warm	mark
56	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 journey	acl
57	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 warm	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Tiny	the swallow		a flower leaf	then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Destination water=Theme
2	drink	past · perfect	snow						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	snow		Tiny				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wound	past · perfect	snow	one of snow's wings in a thorn bush					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer
5	not fly	could						as the others; fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	the others			swallow's journey		away property	tree rules
7	warm	to-infinitive		countries					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent country=Patient

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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