Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 26
Then she swam out with her ugly son to the leaf on which she had placed poor little Tiny.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: swim out, place · To what, where: leaf
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 (daughter), 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 swam | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 swam | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 son | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 leaf | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 leaf | det |
| 11 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 placed | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 placed | aux |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 leaf | acl:relcl |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 placed | xcomp |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Tiny | amod |
| 19 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 poor | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim out | past | daughter | the leaf | then | with daughter's ugly son; out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to leaf=Destination | ||
| 2 | place | past · perfect | daughter | the leaf | poor property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on which=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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