Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 177

Then all the flowers opened, and out of each came a little lady or a tiny lord, all so pretty it was quite a pleasure to look at them.

Who acts: flowers, little lady · What happens: open, come, be, look · To what, where: each, pleasure

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 (flowers, little lady), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 opened	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 flowers	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 each	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 came	obl
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lady	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lady	amod
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 lord	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lord	det
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lord	amod
18	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lady	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lord	punct
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 pleasure	det
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 pretty	advmod
22	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	27 pleasure	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pleasure	expl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pleasure	cop
25	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	27 pleasure	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pleasure	det
27	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 look	mark
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 pleasure	acl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 look	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	all flowers			then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a little lady or a tiny lord		each			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out each=Initial_Location
3	is a	past		all pleasure			pretty property	tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	a little lady or a tiny lord not said here				at sort	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme

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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