Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 164
Vines clustered round its lofty pillars, and at the top were many swallows' nests, and one of these was the home of the swallow who carried Tiny.
Who acts: nests, one, swallow · What happens: cluster, be, carry · To what, where: Vines, top, home, Tiny
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 (nests, one, swallow), 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 | Vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | clustered | cluster | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Vines | acl |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 pillars | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pillars | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pillars | amod |
| 6 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clustered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 were | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 were | obl |
| 12 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Vines | conj |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swallows | amod |
| 14 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nests | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 swallows | case |
| 16 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 home | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 home | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 home | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 these | case |
| 21 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 home | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 home | det |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vines | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 swallow | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 swallow | det |
| 27 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 home | nmod |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 carried | nsubj |
| 29 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 swallow | acl:relcl |
| 30 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 carried | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cluster | participle | Vines and the home not said here | round side's lofty pillars | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | many swallows's nests | the top | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | one of these | the home | of the swallow | tree rules | |||
| 4 | carry | past | the swallow | Tiny | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiny=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.
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