Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 24

The tiny little creature woke very early in the morning, and began to cry bitterly when she found where she was, for she could see nothing but water on every side of the large green leaf, and no way of reaching the land.

Who acts: tiny little creature, creature, way · What happens: wake, begin, cry, find, be, reach · To what, where: side, land · 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 (tiny little creature, creature, way), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creature	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woke	nsubj
5	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 early	advmod
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 woke	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woke	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cry	mark
15	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	15 cry	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 found	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cry	advcl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 see	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 see	cop
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 see	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 found	ccomp
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 see	obj
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 water	cc
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nothing	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 side	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 side	det
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 leaf	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 leaf	det
36	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 leaf	amod
37	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 leaf	amod
38	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 side	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 way	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 way	cc
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 way	det
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	parataxis
43	of	of	SCONJ	_	44 reaching	mark
44	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 way	acl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 land	det
46	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 reaching	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 woke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	the tiny little creature			morning	early property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	the tiny little creature not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the tiny little creature not said here				bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	creature					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	is	could · past	creature		every side of the large green leaf		see property	tree rules
6	reach	gerund	no way not said here	the land				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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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