Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 176

This certainly was a very different sort of husband to the son of a toad, or the mole, with my black velvet and fur; so she said, "Yes," to the handsome prince.

Who acts: This, creature · What happens: be, say · To what, where: different sort, handsome prince · 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 (This, creature), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 sort	nsubj
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 sort	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sort	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sort	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 different	advmod
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sort	amod
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 husband	case
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 son	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 toad	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 toad	det
15	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mole	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 mole	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mole	det
19	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 velvet	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 velvet	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 velvet	nmod:poss
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 velvet	amod
24	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mole	appos
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fur	cc
26	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 velvet	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 said	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sort	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Yes	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Yes	punct
33	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	30 said	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Yes	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Yes	punct
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 prince	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 prince	det
38	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 prince	amod
39	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	a different sort or the mole				of husband; to the son of a toad; certainly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	creature		the handsome prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to prince=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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