Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 130

Every evening the mole visited her, and was continually speaking of the time when the summer would be over.

Who acts: mole, summer · What happens: visit, speak, be · To what, where: Tiny · 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 (mole, summer), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visited	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mole	det
4	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visited	nsubj
5	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 visited	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 speaking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 speaking	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 speaking	aux
10	continually	continually	ADV	_	11 speaking	advmod
11	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 visited	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speaking	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 over	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 summer	det
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 over	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 over	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 over	cop
20	over	over	ADV	_	11 speaking	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	visit	past	the mole	Tiny	evening		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
2	speak speech: other	past · progressive	the mole not said here		time	continually property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	the summer			over property	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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