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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

advmodnsubjpunctccconjnsubjauxadvmodccompdetamodobjpunctrootThenADVTinyPROPNweptVERB,PUNCTandCCONJsaidVERBshePRONwouldAUXnotPARTmarryVERBtheDETdisagreeableADJmoleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 weptadvmod
2TinyTinyPROPNNumber=Sing3 weptnsubj
3weptweepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_6 saidpunct
5andandCCONJ_6 saidcc
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 weptconj
7sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 marrynsubj
8wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin10 marryaux
9notnotPARTPolarity=Neg10 marryadvmod
10marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf6 saidccomp
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 moledet
12disagreeabledisagreeableADJDegree=Pos13 moleamod
13molemoleNOUNNumber=Sing10 marryobj
14..PUNCT_3 weptpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1weeppastTinythenvn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2say speech: assertpastTiny not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3not marrywouldTinythe disagreeable molevn 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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