Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 111
The whole winter the swallow remained underground, and Tiny nursed him with care and love.
Who acts: Tiny · What happens: remain, nurse · To what, where: whole winter, snow
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 winter | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 winter | amod |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 swallow | det |
| 5 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | nsubj |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 6 remained | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nursed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nursed | cc |
| 10 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nursed | nsubj |
| 11 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remained | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nursed | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 care | case |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nursed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 love | cc |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 care | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle · passive | the whole winter | underground property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | nurse | past | Tiny | snow | with care and love | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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