Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 170

But how surprised she was to see in the middle of the flower, a tiny little man, as white and transparent as if he had been made of crystal!

Who acts: flower · What happens: see, make · To what, where: middle, man

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 (flower), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 surprised	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 surprised	advmod
3	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 surprised	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 flower	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flower	det
13	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middle	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middle	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 white	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 white	case
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 transparent	cc
23	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 white	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 made	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 made	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 made	aux:pass
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 white	advcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 crystal	case
31	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	flower			the middle of the flower and a tiny little man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	past · perfect · passive		man				of crystal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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