Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 157
"Yes, I will go with you," said Tiny; and she seated herself on the bird's back, with her feet on his outstretched wings, and tied her girdle to one of his strongest feathers.
Who acts: Tiny · What happens: go, say, seat, tie · To what, where: Tiny, back, girdle, one · 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 (Tiny), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 seated | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seated | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seated | nsubj |
| 16 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 seated | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 back | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 back | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 bird | case |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seated | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 feet | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seated | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 wings | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wings | nmod:poss |
| 29 | outstretched | outstretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 wings | amod |
| 30 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 feet | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tied | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tied | cc |
| 33 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 35 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tied | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 one | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 tied | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 feathers | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 40 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 feathers | amod |
| 41 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 one | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | Tiny | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tiny | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seat | past | Tiny | Tiny | the bird's back | with Tiny's feet on Tweet's outstretched wings | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | ||
| 4 | tie | past | Tiny not said here | Tiny's girdle | one of Tweet's strongest feathers | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent girdle=Patient to one=Co-Patient |
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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