Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 33

No, it must never be!" so they assembled together in the water, round the green stalk which held the leaf on which the little maiden stood, and gnawed it away at the root with their teeth.

Who acts: fishes, green stalk, little maiden · What happens: be, hold, stand, gnaw away · To what, where: water, leaf, sight, root

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 (fishes, green stalk, little maiden), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 be	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 be	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 be	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 assembled	cop
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 assembled	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 assembled	nsubj
11	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 assembled	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assembled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stalk	punct
17	round	round	ADP	_	20 stalk	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stalk	det
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stalk	amod
20	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assembled	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 held	nsubj
22	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stalk	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 leaf	det
24	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 held	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 stood	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 maiden	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 maiden	amod
29	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	nsubj
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 leaf	acl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gnawed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gnawed	cc
33	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 assembled	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gnawed	obj
35	away	away	ADV	_	33 gnawed	advmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 root	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 root	det
38	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gnawed	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 teeth	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 teeth	nmod:poss
41	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 root	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive	fishes = fish		the water	round the green stalk; assemble, together property	tree rules
2	hold in a quote	past	the green stalk	the leaf			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
3	stand in a quote	past	the little maiden		the leaf		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
4	gnaw away in a quote	past	fishes = fish not said here	sight	the root with fishes's teeth	away property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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