Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 39

Presently a large cockchafer flew by; the moment he caught sight of her, he seized her round her delicate waist with his claws, and flew with her into a tree.

Who acts: large cockchafer, moment, cockchafer · What happens: fly by, catch, seize, fly, sight · To what, where: sight, Tiny, tree

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 (large cockchafer, moment, cockchafer), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cockchafer	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cockchafer	amod
4	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 flew	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	nsubj
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sight	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seized	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seized	nsubj
17	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 caught	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seized	obj
19	round	round	ADP	_	22 waist	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 waist	nmod:poss
21	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 waist	amod
22	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seized	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 claws	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 claws	nmod:poss
25	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 waist	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flew	cc
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flew	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 flew	obl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 tree	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flew	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly by	past	a large cockchafer		presently property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past	the moment	sight of Tiny		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
3	seize	past	cockchafer	Tiny	round Tiny's delicate waist with cockchafer's claws	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	fly	past	a large cockchafer not said here		into a tree result; with Tiny	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result
5	sight			Tiny		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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