Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 155
Then we can fly away from the ugly mole and his gloomy rooms,--far away, over the mountains, into warmer countries, where the sun shines more brightly--than here; where it is always summer, and the flowers bloom in greater beauty.
Who acts: we, sun, flowers · What happens: fly away, shine, be, bloom · To what, where: ugly mole, summer, greater beauty
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 (we, sun, flowers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fly | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 fly | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 mole | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mole | det |
| 8 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mole | amod |
| 9 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fly | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rooms | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rooms | amod |
| 13 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mole | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 away | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 away | punct |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 away | advmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 fly | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mountains | punct |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 mountains | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountains | det |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fly | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 countries | punct |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 countries | case |
| 24 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 countries | amod |
| 25 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 here | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shines | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 shines | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sun | det |
| 29 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shines | nsubj |
| 30 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 countries | conj |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 brightly | advmod |
| 32 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 30 shines | advmod |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 here | punct |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 here | case |
| 35 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fly | parataxis |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 summer | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 summer | advmod |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 summer | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 summer | cop |
| 40 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 41 summer | advmod |
| 41 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fly | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 bloom | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 bloom | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 flowers | det |
| 45 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 bloom | nsubj |
| 46 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | conj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 beauty | case |
| 48 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 beauty | amod |
| 49 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bloom | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | can | we | the ugly mole and Tweet's gloomy rooms | then | over the mountains; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over mountain=Location | ||
| 2 | shine | present | the sun | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | sun | summer | always property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bloom | present | the flowers | greater beauty | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beauty=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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