Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 179

Then there was much rejoicing, and the little swallow who sat above them, in his nest, was asked to sing a wedding song, which he did as well as he could; but in his heart he felt sad for he was very fond of Tiny, and would have liked never to part from her again.

Who acts: little swallow, rejoicing · What happens: sit, ask, sing, do, be, like · To what, where: little swallow, wedding song, heart, part

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 (little swallow, rejoicing), 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	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 felt	cop
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rejoicing	amod
5	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swallow	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swallow	amod
10	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 swallow	acl:relcl
13	above	above	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 nest	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 nest	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 nest	nmod:poss
18	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swallow	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asked	aux:pass
21	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 was	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sing	mark
23	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 asked	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 song	det
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 song	compound
26	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 did	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 did	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 did	nsubj
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 song	acl:relcl
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 well	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 did	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 could	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 could	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 well	advcl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 felt	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 felt	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 heart	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 heart	nmod:poss
40	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 felt	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 felt	nsubj
42	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 felt	xcomp
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 fond	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fond	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 fond	cop
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 fond	advmod
48	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 felt	advcl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Tiny	case
50	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 fond	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 liked	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 liked	cc
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 liked	aux
54	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 liked	aux
55	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 fond	advcl
56	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	58 part	advmod
57	to	to	PART	_	58 part	mark
58	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 liked	obj
59	from	from	ADP	_	60 her	case
60	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 part	nmod
61	again	again	ADV	_	55 liked	advmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the little swallow				above swallow	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above they=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past · passive		the little swallow				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little swallow not said here	a wedding song				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	do	past	rejoicing	a wedding song			well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
5	is	past	rejoicing		rejoicing's heart		feel, sad property	tree rules
6	is	past	rejoicing				of Tiny; fond property	tree rules
7	like	would · perfect	rejoicing not said here	part		again	from flower	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=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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