Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 172
He was the angel of the flower; for a tiny man and a tiny woman dwell in every flower; and this was the king of them all.
Who acts: man, this · What happens: be · To what, where: angel, king
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, this), 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 | 4 angel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angel | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 angel | det |
| 4 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flower | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angel | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angel | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dwell | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dwell | det |
| 15 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dwell | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dwell | compound |
| 17 | dwell | dwell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 flower | case |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 flower | det |
| 20 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dwell | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 king | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 king | cc |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 king | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 king | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angel | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 king | nmod |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man | the angel and a tiny man and a tiny woman dwell in every flower and the king | of the flower | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the king | of angel | 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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