Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 122

The corn which had been sown in the field over the house of the field-mouse had grown up high into the air, and formed a thick wood to Tiny, who was only an inch in height.

Who acts: corn, thick wood · What happens: sow, grow up, form, be · To what, where: corn, field, house, thick wood, Tiny, inch

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 (corn, thick wood), 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 corn	det
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 formed	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sown	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sown	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sown	aux:pass
6	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 corn	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sown	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grown	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 mouse	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mouse	det
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mouse	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 field	punct
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grown	obl
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grown	aux
19	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 sown	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 grown	compound:prt
21	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 grown	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grown	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 formed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 formed	cc
27	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 wood	det
29	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wood	amod
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 formed	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Tiny	case
32	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 wood	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 inch	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 inch	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 inch	cop
36	only	only	ADV	_	38 inch	advmod
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 inch	det
38	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wood	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 height	case
40	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 inch	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 formed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sow	past · perfect · passive		the corn		the field		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in field=Destination
2	grow up	past · perfect				the house	of the field mouse; into the air; high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over house=Location
3	form	past	the corn	a thick wood and a inch	Tiny			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wood=Theme to tiny=Recipient
4	is a	past	a thick wood and a inch	a inch		height		tree rules

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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