Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 38
She took off her girdle and tied one end of it round the butterfly, and the other end of the ribbon she fastened to the leaf, which now glided on much faster than ever, taking little Tiny with it as she stood.
Who acts: Tiny, other end, leaf · What happens: take off, tie, fasten, glide, take, stand · To what, where: girdle, one end, little Tiny
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, other end, leaf), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tied | cc |
| 7 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 end | nummod |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tied | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 end | nmod |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 butterfly | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 butterfly | det |
| 14 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tied | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fastened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fastened | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 end | amod |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fastened | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ribbon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ribbon | det |
| 22 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 end | nmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fastened | nsubj |
| 24 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 leaf | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 leaf | det |
| 27 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fastened | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 glided | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 glided | nsubj |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 glided | advmod |
| 31 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 leaf | acl:relcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 faster | case |
| 33 | much | much | ADV | _ | 34 faster | advmod |
| 34 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 glided | advmod |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 ever | case |
| 36 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 faster | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 taking | punct |
| 38 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 fastened | advcl |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Tiny | amod |
| 40 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 taking | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 taking | obl |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 stood | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 stood | nsubj |
| 45 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 taking | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Tiny | Tiny's girdle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | Tiny not said here | one end of end | round the butterfly | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | |||
| 3 | fasten | past | the other end of the ribbon | to the leaf | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to leaf=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | glide | past | the leaf | now | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | take | gerund | the other end of the ribbon not said here | little Tiny | with end | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiny=Theme | |||
| 6 | stand | past | Tiny | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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