Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 156

Fly now with me, dear little Tiny; you saved my life when I lay frozen in that dark passage."

Who acts: you · What happens: fly, save, freeze · To what, where: life, I, dark passage

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 (you), 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	Fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Fly	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Fly	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fly	parataxis
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Tiny	amod
8	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dear	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 saved	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 saved	nsubj
11	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Fly	parataxis
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saved	obj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 frozen	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 frozen	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 frozen	aux:pass
17	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 saved	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 passage	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 passage	det
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 passage	amod
21	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 frozen	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fly	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	imperative	you not said here			now	with me	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	past	you	my life				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	freeze	past · passive		I	that dark passage			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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