Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 171

He had a gold crown on his head, and delicate wings at his shoulders, and was not much larger than Tiny herself.

Who acts: man · What happens: have, not be · To what, where: gold crown, head

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 (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crown	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crown	compound
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wings	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wings	cc
11	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wings	amod
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 shoulders	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shoulders	nmod:poss
15	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wings	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 larger	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 larger	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 larger	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 larger	advmod
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 larger	advmod
21	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	conj
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 Tiny	case
23	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 larger	obl
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 Tiny	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	a gold crown		man's head		delicate wings at man's shoulders obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient
2	not is	past	man not said here					than Tiny Tiny; large property	tree rules

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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