Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 115

The sun shone in upon them so beautifully, that the swallow asked her if she would go with him; she could sit on his back, he said, and he would fly away with her into the green woods.

Who acts: sun, swallow, mole, ceiling · What happens: shine, ask, go, sit, say, fly away · To what, where: mole, back, green woods · 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 (sun, swallow, mole, ceiling), 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	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shone	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 beautifully	advmod
8	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	3 shone	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 asked	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 swallow	det
12	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sit	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sit	aux
24	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shone	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 back	nmod:poss
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sit	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sit	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fly	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fly	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fly	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fly	aux
35	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 fly	advmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fly	obl
39	into	into	ADP	_	42 woods	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 woods	det
41	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 woods	amod
42	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fly	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun			upon swallow; beautifully property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	the swallow	mole			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go a condition, not said to happen	would	mole			with ceiling	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
4	sit	could	mole		ceiling's back		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
5	say speech: assert	past	ceiling				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	fly away	would	ceiling			into the green woods result; with mole; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result

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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