Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 173
"Oh, how beautiful he is!" whispered Tiny to the swallow.
Who acts: Tiny · What happens: be, whisper · To what, where: swallow · 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 (Tiny), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 beautiful | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 whispered | ccomp |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tiny | Tiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 swallow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swallow | det |
| 14 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whispered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: express | past | Tiny | the swallow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to swallow=Recipient |
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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