Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 178

Each of them brought Tiny a present; but the best gift was a pair of beautiful wings, which had belonged to a large white fly and they fastened them to Tiny's shoulders, so that she might fly from flower to flower.

Who acts: Each, best gift, pair, sort, Tiny · What happens: bring, be, belong, fasten, fly · To what, where: present, Tiny, pair, wings, flower

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 (Each, best gift, pair, sort), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 brought	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Each	nmod
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 present	det
7	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pair	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 pair	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gift	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 gift	amod
12	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pair	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pair	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pair	det
15	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 wings	case
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wings	amod
18	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pair	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 belonged	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 belonged	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 belonged	aux
22	belonged	belong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 pair	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 fly	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fly	det
25	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fly	amod
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fly	amod
27	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 belonged	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fastened	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fastened	nsubj
30	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 belonged	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fastened	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 shoulders	case
33	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 shoulders	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Tiny	case
35	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fastened	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fly	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	41 fly	advmod
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 fly	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 fly	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 fly	aux
41	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 brought	conj
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 flower	case
43	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fly	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 flower	case
45	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fly	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Each	a present	Tiny			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent tiny=Destination present=Theme
2	is a	past	the best gift	a pair			of beautiful wings	tree rules
3	belong	past · perfect	a pair				to a large white fly	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	fasten	past	sort	wings = wing			to Tiny's shoulders	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to shoulder=Co-Patient
5	fly	might	Tiny			flower	to flower	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from flower=Initial_Location to flower=Destination

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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