Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 174

The little prince was at first quite frightened at the bird, who was like a giant, compared to such a delicate little creature as himself; but when he saw Tiny, he was delighted, and thought her the prettiest little maiden he had ever seen.

Who acts: bird, man · What happens: be, compare, see, think · To what, where: little prince, creature, prettiest little maiden

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 (bird, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prince	amod
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 frightened	obl
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 frightened	advmod
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 bird	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giant	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 giant	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 giant	cop
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 giant	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 compared	punct
19	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 giant	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	25 creature	case
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 creature	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 creature	det
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 creature	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 creature	amod
25	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 compared	obl
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 creature	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 delighted	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 delighted	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 saw	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 saw	nsubj
32	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 delighted	advcl
33	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 saw	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saw	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 delighted	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 delighted	cop
37	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 frightened	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thought	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thought	cc
40	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	advcl
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 thought	obj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 maiden	det
43	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 maiden	amod
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 maiden	amod
45	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thought	xcomp
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 seen	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 seen	aux
48	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	49 seen	advmod
49	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 maiden	acl:relcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · passive		the little prince		at the bird; frighten property	tree rules
2	is	past	the bird			giant property	tree rules
3	compare	participle	the bird not said here			to such delicate little creature as man	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	see	past	man			tiny property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	man			delighted property	tree rules
6	think speech: other	past		creature			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
7	see	past · perfect	man	the prettiest little maiden not said here	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus

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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