Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 129

Tiny had to turn the spindle, and the field-mouse hired four spiders, who were to weave day and night.

Who acts: Tiny, field mouse, four spiders · What happens: have, turn, hire, weave · To what, where: spindle, four spiders

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, field mouse, four spiders), 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	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 turn	mark
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spindle	det
6	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hired	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mouse	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 field	punct
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hired	nsubj
13	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 spiders	nummod
15	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hired	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 weave	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 weave	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 weave	aux
19	to	to	PART	_	20 weave	mark
20	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 spiders	acl:relcl
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 weave	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 night	cc
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 day	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	Tiny			tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive	Tiny not said here	the spindle		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spindle=Theme
3	hire	past	the field mouse	four spiders		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Theme
4	weave	past	four spiders	four spiders not said here	day	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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