Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 162
Beautiful children ran along the country lanes, playing with large gay butterflies; and as the swallow flew farther and farther, every place appeared still more lovely.
Who acts: Beautiful children, swallow, place · What happens: run, play, fly, appear · To what, where: country lanes
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 (Beautiful children, swallow, place), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 lanes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lanes | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lanes | compound |
| 7 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 butterflies | case |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 butterflies | amod |
| 12 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 butterflies | amod |
| 13 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 playing | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 flew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flew | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 flew | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 swallow | det |
| 18 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flew | nsubj |
| 19 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 20 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 flew | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 farther | cc |
| 22 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 farther | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 appeared | punct |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appeared | nsubj |
| 26 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 flew | conj |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 more | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 lovely | advmod |
| 29 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 appeared | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Beautiful children | the country lanes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along lane=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | Beautiful children not said here | with large gay butterflies | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with butterfly=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | the swallow | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | every place | lovely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/162/