Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 169
Between these pieces grew the most beautiful large white flowers; so the swallow flew down with Tiny, and placed her on one of the broad leaves.
Who acts: pieces, swallow · What happens: grow, fly down, place · To what, where: beautiful large white flowers, flower
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 (pieces, 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 pieces | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 pieces | det |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flowers | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flowers | amod |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flowers | amod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flowers | amod |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 flew | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swallow | det |
| 14 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 flew | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Tiny | case |
| 18 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 placed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 placed | cc |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 placed | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 placed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 leaves | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 leaves | det |
| 27 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 leaves | amod |
| 28 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | this pieces | the beautiful large white flowers | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly down | past | the swallow | with Tiny; down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past | this pieces not said here | flower | on one of the broad leaves | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on one=Destination |
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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