Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 137
Then Tiny wept, and said she would not marry the disagreeable mole.
Who acts: Tiny · What happens: weep, say, not marry · To what, where: disagreeable mole · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wept | advmod |
| 2 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | conj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 marry | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 marry | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 marry | advmod |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mole | det |
| 12 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mole | amod |
| 13 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marry | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Tiny | then | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tiny not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not marry | would | Tiny | the disagreeable mole | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Patient |
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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