Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 143

So the wedding-day was fixed, on which the mole was to fetch Tiny away to live with him, deep under the earth, and never again to see the warm sun, because he did not like it.

Who acts: mole, Nonsense · What happens: fix, be, live, see, not like · To what, where: wedding day, warm sun, sun

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, Nonsense), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 fixed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 wedding	punct
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fixed	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fixed	aux:pass
7	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fetch	punct
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 fetch	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mole	det
12	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fetch	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fetch	mark
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fixed	conj
16	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	obj
17	away	away	ADV	_	15 fetch	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 live	mark
19	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fetch	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 live	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 deep	punct
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 live	advmod
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 earth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deep	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 again	advmod
30	again	again	ADV	_	32 see	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 fixed	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sun	det
34	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sun	amod
35	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 like	punct
37	because	because	SCONJ	_	41 like	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 like	nsubj
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 like	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 like	advmod
41	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 see	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 like	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past · passive		the wedding day			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	the mole			away, fetch property	tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	the mole not said here			with Nonsense	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
4	see	to-infinitive		the warm sun	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus
5	not like	past · do-support	Nonsense	sun			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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