Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 13
Here the little maiden sat and rowed herself from side to side, with two oars made of white horse-hair.
Who acts: little maiden · What happens: sit, row, make · To what, where: maiden, side, two oars
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 (little maiden), 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 | 5 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maiden | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rowed | cc |
| 7 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 rowed | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rowed | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rowed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 oars | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 oars | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 oars | nummod |
| 16 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rowed | obl |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 oars | acl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hair | case |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hair | amod |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hair | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 horse | punct |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the little maiden | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | row | past | the little maiden not said here | maiden | side | to side; with two oars | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme from side=Initial_Location to side=Destination | ||
| 3 | make | participle | two oars not said here | of white horse hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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