Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 133
But Tiny was not at all pleased; for she did not like the tiresome mole.
Who acts: Tiny · What happens: not be, not like · To what, where: all, tiresome mole
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 pleased | cc |
| 2 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleased | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 pleased | obl |
| 7 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 like | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 like | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pleased | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mole | det |
| 15 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mole | amod |
| 16 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 like | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Tiny | all | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | Tiny | the tiresome mole | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mole=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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