Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 159

Tiny would have been frozen in the cold air, but she crept under the bird's warm feathers, keeping her little head uncovered, so that she might admire the beautiful lands over which they passed.

Who acts: Tiny, little head, heads · What happens: freeze, creep, keep, uncover, admire, pass · To what, where: cold air, warm feathers, beautiful lands

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, little head, heads), 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	5 frozen	amod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 frozen	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 frozen	aux:pass
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frozen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crept	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 crept	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 crept	nsubj
13	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	conj
14	under	under	ADP	_	19 feathers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feathers	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 bird	case
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 feathers	amod
19	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crept	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 keeping	punct
21	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 crept	advcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 head	amod
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 uncovered	nsubj
25	uncovered	uncover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 keeping	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 admire	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 admire	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 admire	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 admire	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 admire	aux
31	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 crept	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lands	det
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lands	amod
34	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 admire	obj
35	over	over	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 passed	obl
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 passed	nsubj
38	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lands	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frozen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	freeze	would · perfect · passive			the cold air	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»
2	creep	past	Tiny		the bird's warm feathers	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under feather=Trajectory
3	keep	gerund	Tiny not said here			tree rules
4	uncover	participle	Tiny's little head			tree rules
5	admire	might	Tiny	the beautiful lands		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus
6	pass	past	heads = head		the beautiful lands	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over which=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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