Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 144

The poor child was very unhappy at the thought of saying farewell to the beautiful sun, and as the field-mouse had given her permission to stand at the door, she went to look at it once more.

Who acts: poor child, thought, child · What happens: be, say, give, stand, go, look · To what, where: thought, beautiful sun, permission, door · 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 (poor child, thought, child), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unhappy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 unhappy	advmod
6	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 thought	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thought	det
9	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unhappy	obl
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 saying	mark
11	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 thought	acl
12	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	11 saying	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 sun	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sun	amod
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 given	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 given	cc
19	as	as	ADP	_	23 mouse	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mouse	det
21	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mouse	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 field	punct
23	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	obl
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 unhappy	parataxis
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 permission	nmod:poss
27	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stand	mark
29	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 permission	acl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stand	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unhappy	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 look	mark
37	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 went	xcomp
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 look	obl
40	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	41 more	advmod
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 look	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor child			the thought	unhappy property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the thought not said here		the beautiful sun		farewell property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sun=Recipient
3	give	past · perfect		child's permission			as the field mouse	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme
4	stand	to-infinitive		child's permission not said here		the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
5	go	past	child					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	look	to-infinitive	child not said here				at sun	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
7	permit		child					nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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