Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 136

When autumn arrived, Tiny had her outfit quite ready; and the field-mouse said to her, "In four weeks the wedding must take place."

Who acts: autumn, Tiny, field mouse, wedding · What happens: arrive, have, say, take · To what, where: outfit, Tiny, place · 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 (autumn, Tiny, field mouse, wedding), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct
5	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 outfit	nmod:poss
8	outfit	outfit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 ready	advmod
10	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 outfit	amod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mouse	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 field	punct
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
22	In	in	ADP	_	24 weeks	case
23	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 weeks	nummod
24	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 take	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wedding	det
26	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 take	aux
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	arrive	past	autumn				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Tiny	Tiny's outfit			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outfit=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the field mouse		Tiny		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	must	the wedding	place		week	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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