Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 16

One night, while she lay in her pretty bed, a large, ugly, wet toad crept through a broken pane of glass in the window, and leaped right upon the table where Tiny lay sleeping under her rose-leaf quilt.

Who acts: maiden, large wet toad, Tiny · What happens: lie, creep, break, leap, sleep · To what, where: pretty bed, broken pane, table, leaf quilt

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 (maiden, large wet toad, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 lay	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
9	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bed	amod
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crept	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 toad	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 toad	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ugly	punct
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 large	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 large	punct
17	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 toad	amod
18	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crept	nsubj
19	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	parataxis
20	through	through	ADP	_	23 pane	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pane	det
22	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 pane	amod
23	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crept	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 glass	case
25	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pane	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 window	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 window	det
28	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crept	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 leaped	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 leaped	cc
31	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 crept	conj
32	right	right	ADV	_	35 table	advmod
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 table	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 table	det
35	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leaped	obl
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 lay	advmod
37	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lay	nsubj
38	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 table	acl:relcl
39	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 lay	xcomp
40	under	under	ADP	_	45 quilt	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 quilt	nmod:poss
42	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 leaf	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 rose	punct
44	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 quilt	compound
45	quilt	quilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sleeping	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	maiden	maiden's pretty bed	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	creep	past	a large wet toad	a broken pane of glass		in the window	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pane=Trajectory
3	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	leap	participle	a large wet toad not said here	the table			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon table=Trajectory
5	lie	past	Tiny				tree rules
6	sleep	gerund	Tiny not said here	maiden's leaf quilt			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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