Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 17
"What a pretty little wife this would make for my son," said the toad, and she took up the walnut-shell in which little Tiny lay asleep, and jumped through the window with it into the garden.
Who acts: this, toad, little Tiny · What happens: make, say, take up, lie, jump · To what, where: little wife, walnut shell, window · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (this, toad, little Tiny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5699): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 wife | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 4 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 5 little | advmod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 make | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 toad | det |
| 17 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shell | det |
| 24 | walnut | walnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shell | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 walnut | punct |
| 26 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 lay | obl |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Tiny | amod |
| 30 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 lay | nsubj |
| 31 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shell | acl:relcl |
| 32 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lay | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 jumped | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 jumped | cc |
| 35 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 window | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 window | det |
| 38 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 jumped | obl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 jumped | obl |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 garden | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 garden | det |
| 43 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 jumped | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | would | this | what little wife | for my son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Product for son=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the toad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take up | past | toad | the walnut shell | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | little Tiny | the walnut shell | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | |||
| 5 | jump | past | toad not said here | the window | with window; into the garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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