Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 146
Farewell, farewell," she repeated, twining her arm round a little red flower that grew just by her side. "
Who acts: child, little red flower · What happens: repeat, twine, grow · To what, where: arm, little red flower
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 (child, little red flower), 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 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 3 farewell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Farewell | punct |
| 3 | farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 7 repeated | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 farewell | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 repeated | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 repeated | nsubj |
| 7 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 twining | punct |
| 9 | twining | twine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 repeated | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twining | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 flower | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flower | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flower | amod |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flower | amod |
| 16 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twining | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flower | acl:relcl |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 side | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 repeated | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat in a quote | past | child | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | twine in a quote | gerund | child not said here | child's arm | a little red flower | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme round flower=Destination | |||
| 3 | grow in a quote | past | a little red flower | by child's side | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location |
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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