Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 37
Tiny pleased him, and she was glad of it, for now the toad could not possibly reach her, and the country through which she sailed was beautiful, and the sun shone upon the water, till it glittered like liquid gold.
Who acts: Tiny, toad, country, sun · What happens: be, not reach, sail, shine, glitter · To what, where: Tiny, country, water
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, toad, country, sun), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 him | amod |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tiny | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 glad | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 glad | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 glad | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 glad | cop |
| 8 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tiny | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 glad | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reach | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 reach | mark |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 reach | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 toad | det |
| 15 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reach | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 reach | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 reach | advmod |
| 18 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 19 reach | advmod |
| 19 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 glad | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reach | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beautiful | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 beautiful | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beautiful | nsubj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 sailed | obl |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sailed | nsubj |
| 28 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 country | acl:relcl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 beautiful | cop |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tiny | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shone | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 shone | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sun | det |
| 34 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shone | nsubj |
| 35 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 beautiful | parataxis |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 water | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 water | det |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shone | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 glittered | punct |
| 40 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 42 glittered | mark |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 glittered | nsubj |
| 42 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 shone | conj |
| 43 | like | like | ADP | _ | 45 gold | case |
| 44 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 gold | amod |
| 45 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 glittered | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tiny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tiny | of last; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not reach | could | the toad | Tiny | now | possibly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 3 | sail | past | Tiny | the country | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through which=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the country | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shine | past | the sun | the water | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Location | ||||
| 6 | glitter | past | sun | like liquid gold | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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