Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 35

Tiny sailed past many towns, and the little birds in the bushes saw her, and sang, "What a lovely little creature;" so the leaf swam away with her farther and farther, till it brought her to other lands.

Who acts: Tiny, little birds, leaf, reach · What happens: sail, see, sing, swim away, bring · To what, where: many towns, Tiny, other lands

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 birds, leaf, reach), 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	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sailed	nsubj
2	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADP	_	5 towns	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 towns	amod
5	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sailed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 birds	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 birds	amod
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 saw	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bushes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bushes	det
13	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 birds	nmod
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailed	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sang	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sang	cc
18	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 What	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 What	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 sang	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 creature	det
23	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 creature	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 creature	amod
25	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 What	nsubj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 swam	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 swam	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	31 swam	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 leaf	det
30	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swam	nsubj
31	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailed	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 swam	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 farther	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 farther	nmod:poss
35	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 swam	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 farther	cc
37	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 farther	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 brought	punct
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 brought	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 brought	nsubj
41	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 swam	conj
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 brought	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 lands	case
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 lands	amod
45	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 brought	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	past	Tiny		many towns		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past town=Trajectory
2	see	past	the little birds in the bushes	Tiny			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	sing speech: express	past	Tiny not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme
4	swim away	past	the leaf			away, far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bring	past	reach	Tiny	other lands		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to land=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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