Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 15

Tiny could, also, sing so softly and sweetly that nothing like her singing had ever before been heard.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: sing, hear · To what, where: nothing

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 (maiden), 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	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sing	amod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sing	aux
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 could	punct
4	also	also	ADV	_	6 sing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 also	punct
6	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 softly	advmod
8	softly	softly	ADV	_	6 sing	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sweetly	cc
10	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	8 softly	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 heard	mark
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 heard	nsubj:pass
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 singing	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 singing	nmod:poss
15	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 nothing	nmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	aux
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 before	advmod
18	before	before	ADV	_	20 heard	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 heard	aux:pass
20	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sing	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	could			softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past · perfect · passive		nothing	before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	sing		maiden			nom singing «act 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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