Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 11
Here she slept at night, but during the day she amused herself on a table, where the woman had placed a plateful of water.
Who acts: flower · What happens: sleep, amuse, place · To what, where: flower, table, woman
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 (flower), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 slept | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slept | nsubj |
| 3 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 amused | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 amused | cc |
| 8 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 amused | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 amused | nsubj |
| 12 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slept | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 amused | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 table | det |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 amused | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 placed | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | aux |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 amused | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 plateful | det |
| 24 | plateful | plateful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plateful | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | flower | here | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | amuse | past | flower | flower | a table | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | place | past · perfect · passive | the woman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme plateful=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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