Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 2

At last she went to a fairy, and said, "I should so very much like to have a little child; can you tell me where I can find one?"

Who acts: woman, you · What happens: go, say, have, tell, find · To what, where: last, little child, woman, one · 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 (woman, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 fairy	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 much	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 much	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 much	aux
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	20 have	advmod
18	like	like	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
19	to	to	PART	_	20 have	mark
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 child	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 child	amod
23	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 find	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 find	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 find	aux
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	advcl
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 find	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	woman			last	to a fairy	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: ask	past	woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	to-infinitive		a little child				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you		woman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	find in a quote	can	woman	one				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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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