Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 150

As soon as he spied Tiny, he was delighted; and then she told him how unwilling she felt to marry the ugly mole, and to live always beneath the earth, and never to see the bright sun any more.

Who acts: Tweet, child · What happens: spy, be, tell, unwill, feel, marry · To what, where: Tweet, ugly mole, earth, bright sun · 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 (Tweet, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 spied	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 spied	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spied	nsubj
5	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spied	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 delighted	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 delighted	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 delighted	cop
10	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spied	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 told	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spied	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 unwilling	advmod
18	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 told	ccomp
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 unwilling	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 marry	mark
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 felt	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mole	det
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mole	amod
25	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marry	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 live	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 live	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 live	mark
29	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	ccomp
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 live	advmod
31	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	33 earth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 earth	det
33	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 live	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 see	cc
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 see	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 see	mark
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 live	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sun	det
40	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sun	amod
41	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 see	obj
42	any	any	ADV	_	43 more	advmod
43	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 see	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spy	past	Tweet					soon, tiny property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Tweet					delighted property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	child		Tweet		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	unwill	gerund							tree rules
5	feel	past	child						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	marry	to-infinitive	child not said here	the ugly mole					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Patient
7	live not said to happen	to-infinitive				the earth		always property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath earth=Location
8	not see	to-infinitive		the bright sun					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus

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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